Our Life In The Kingdom Of God

January 28, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

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What is left for us to do now is to organize the mobile teams out of you. You came from different nationalities, but we are going to mix you up. One never knows whose team he or she will belong to. We have the same goal and will fight in the same frontline! We have something new ahead of us -- quite different from what we had before. So, you can expect many difficulties. When you advance into the battlefield, you cannot be afraid of hardships and trials. If you are determined to fight for the cause, the difficulties will be no problem at all. But if you are not quite so resolved to face the trials and difficulties ahead, you may have to retreat, frustrated. There are several ways open to you. You can go straight forward, you go to the left, you can go to the right, or you can retreat to the rear. If you are to go forward, you must go ahead, with the other three far away from you.

My subject this morning is going to be "Our Life in the Kingdom of God." We are leading this kind of life in order to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth. When you hear the words "the Kingdom of God" there is something vague here. Whose is the Kingdom of God? At the first thought you may think that the Kingdom of God belongs to God. You may think the Kingdom of Heaven is in one of the nations on earth, maybe. Some family may think that the Kingdom of Heaven will belong to them. Jesus, when he was asked where the Kingdom of Heaven was, answered: "the Kingdom of Heaven is in your mind." Is it possible for the Kingdom of God to be in our minds? Perhaps we think that there seems to be no such thing as the Kingdom of God in our minds. If the Kingdom is already in our minds, why try to find it? Of course the Kingdom we seek is in the objective position -- not waiting for us -- but for us to go ahead and build.

The Kingdom of Heaven is either in our minds or somewhere in an objective place. If you don't find it in your minds, you can guess that it will be in an objective position which must be higher than yours. How much better and higher is it than what you have? If I reach that place, will I have the Kingdom of Heaven? After all, we must set out in search of the Kingdom of God, either in our minds or in some objective place. Whether you will find it in your own minds or somewhere else, you yourself are the question: how are you going to reach it, and what attitude must you have in order to reach it? It must be connected with our life. In what way could it be so?

Your life will be determined after one day, after one month or after years. Your life itself will matter. Your daily life goes up and down and sometimes in a zigzag way. When you do that, vacillating, stumbling, can you reach the Kingdom of Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven is not anything swaying, wavering. If it were, you might have to sway or waver on your way to locating that place. But it is not that way. The Kingdom of Heaven is nothing that will retreat with you or stop for a certain time. If the Kingdom of Heaven is a righteous place at all, it will never vacillate; it will not be sometimes good and sometimes bad. You must not stop and begin and stop again on your way. From the beginning to the end, it must be equal. Once you start, you have got to reach the goal. If the goal is not clear to you, you may as well not start at all.

I must say again that the Kingdom of Heaven is nothing that can vacillate or change, nor a place where we can complain. The Kingdom of Heaven is a place where there is happiness, peace and the ideal. That's not a place where people fight with one another. It's a place where there is no jealousy, no arrogance; it is filled with righteousness, goodness and justice. That must be a place filled with God's grace and ideal. You must know that you are destined to go there and it's a serious matter. Can you ever vacillate on the way, wavering? Who at all can say that he or she can manipulate the Kingdom of Heaven? If there be a God at all, God must govern the world. There God will reign over the people, in a world of His ideal.

If we are to be citizens of that Kingdom, what qualifications must we have? First we must have a searching attitude to locate that place since we don't have it in our possession as yet. It must be somewhere entirely different from where we are now. We are now living in hell, due to the Human Fall. How different a world must it be? We won't observe the difference at one glance. What I've been up to now will have nothing to do with the Kingdom of Heaven, you must know that. You must do something different from what we have been doing. In what way different? Our five senses will note that what they feel is different from what we now feel in this world.

If you believe that by going a certain way, you can reach the Kingdom, you may do that. But you must know the way and who is able to guide you on the way. God knows it. If there be a person whom God loves dearly, he may know where the Kingdom is, for God must have confided in him. You have two ways ahead of you. Of course there is God, but you cannot see Him. The other possibility is that you can meet a person whom God loves. He may know what and where the Kingdom of Heaven is. This person will not come and go as he pleases. He is guided by God and does what God wants him to do. he can endure difficulties and hardships, knowing that the Kingdom of Heaven can be reached only through a difficult path. You must follow him wherever he goes, even if he does not want you to do that. You must serve him, minister to him and should he fall, support and help him. You cannot claim any right to have the Kingdom of Heaven, saying: "You already have the Kingdom; why don't you share it with me?" If you say that you will be kicked away. You will be compelled to minister to him, to serve him and to follow him in order to reach the place. You may sense that this central person seems to like another person more than you, leading and guiding that person -- and you may dislike that and complain, but you have no right to complain. In that case, instead of complaining, you would want to serve that person he seems to favor in order to please him. If you complain, it will be the end of that. Instead, be ready to love that person. Never say to a late comer: "I arrived earlier than you, so I have the right to go ahead of you." If, instead of complaining, you are ready to help and minister to that person, he will be pleased with you and will introduce you to the central figure, wishing you to get closer to him. Something unexpected could happen on your way like this.

Perhaps you will think that God's love is unfair, but the situation demands certain things sometimes. When you have triangular relationships, either one could be loved more by the central figure. Is it not true that among yourselves, too, you have and of likes and dislikes of different persons? Some you like better than others. Some persons you like even though they are willing to take away your position; others, even though they are ready to give you what they have, you don't like them. You have no right to complain, because people have their reasons, and if that's true with man, then how much more is it true with God! God does everything with a reason. But when you find other persons being loved by God more than you are, will you complain and be jealous? It is safe for you to place yourself in a position where you are always ready to receive less love, to minister to another person, and to go to the central figure through that person. That way you can reach your destination. The same applies in your daily life. Suppose there is someone who is trying to help you. You are pleased with him, you want to love him and give him something, but he is very humble and will not readily receive that because he thinks he is not qualified. You would feel like giving to him more and more.

We all know that we have to lead our lives in accordance with the Divine Principle. On the course of restoration we must go the reverse way of the Human Fall. Originally, in the Kingdom of Heaven, Adam and Eve should have become one with God, in harmony. Only after serving God and being loved by God, by becoming one with Him, could they claim anything. Eve should have served Adam as the subject, only him. Only after having served Adam to the full extent could she be loved by him and have any claim over things. The archangel was there for the sake of God, Adam and Eve. Only by serving God, Adam and Eve would he receive their love and have a claim over anything. In a word, you cannot have any authority or assume any value unless you receive love. That's the elementary factor in the Kingdom of Heaven. That is the intrinsic value of the Kingdom of Heaven. The formula is to serve the central figure, to be loved by him, and only after that, to have your own claim. (To someone in the audience. . .) Suppose Dennis [Orme] is premier of Great Britain. Doris, his wife, is not qualified to claim anything from him unless she has served him and is loved by him. After that, if she wanted to share his rights and everything he has, he would be willing to give her everything, wouldn't he? Without serving, you cannot receive love; without receiving love, you can't make any claims. If you do, you'll be rejected. Now you know the intrinsic value of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Where did the Human Fall start? Was it because man was seeking to serve or to be served? Man fell because he wanted to be served rather than serving others. You must know that. While you or anyone can have a claim over anything, only after being loved by a person, can you have the first claim over the love from that person. In the Satanic world you want to be loved by another person, but you do not have any claim to his or her heart. Then you can imagine what the differences are between life in the Kingdom of Heaven and life in the world under Satan.

What is the situation after man's Fall? It is a place far below the position of the archangel. Then, how many do we have to serve before being able to go to the Kingdom of Heaven? You have to serve the person in the archangel's position, having nothing to do with the Fall; you must go through the person in the position of your mother, who will give rebirth to you; you must go through your father; finally, you must serve God in order to reach the Kingdom of Heaven. You must serve: God, Adam and Eve (unfallen Father and Mother), and the unfallen archangel. You must be able to serve those four before reaching the Kingdom of Heaven. You have to go through those persons, because you are far below them due to the Human Fall.

In Christianity they have the word "Trinity": Holy Father, Holy Son and Holy Spirit. But there it one thing omitted there. You must remember that there must be someone in the position of the archangel. In the course of restoration there must be the archangel, leading us back to the original position. That is because, at the time of the Fall, the archangel was the very being. that caused man to fall; so now, in going the reverse way in the course of restoration, he must lead us back. He must connect us with the Holy Spirit first. The Holy Spirit will introduce us to the Son. The Son will introduce us to God, the Father. Without our going through all those four stages we cannot reach the Kingdom of Heaven. From that viewpoint people had to locate Jesus Christ as the central figure. So he was the only person who could reach God ahead of others. If he had his own family and happened to be away, leaving his son and servants, those who wanted to reach the Kingdom of Heaven would want to follow or serve the son, or the servants at least. We want to have the Son there to guide us. That's why the Biblical verse says, "I am the way, the truth and the life, and without going through me you cannot reach the Kingdom of Heaven." Up to the present moment, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been working together, and those in the archangel's position have been guiding men on earth to the central figure. After the archangel accomplished his mission to serve and guide the people back to the central figure, will he be entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven? Yes, he will. Every religion has been in search of the Son of God, so all of them have been teaching how to serve others. You, too, must reach the Kingdom of Heaven by going through these stages by serving others, serving those four. Can you reach the Kingdom of Heaven by doing that? [Yes!]

Some of you may think: "We have our True Parents among us. If we follow them, we are sure to reach the Kingdom of Heaven; nothing else will count." Are you sure you can go to the Kingdom of Heaven that way? If you were in the position of the archangel before the Fall you could. But we are all out of fallen lineage and you must put yourself in the position of the fallen archangel. Then, what do you have to do in order to place yourself in the position of the archangel without the Fall? In order to do that, you must excel in doing things over those in the position of the fallen archangels.

If there be the True Parent, can you just come to him to be saved on the spot? Is that possible? No. Absolutely not. You must, first of all, win over something, and bringing what you have gained, you will be able to come to him. You may have thought that if you had your True Parents you would be able to go to the Kingdom of Heaven right away, but actually things are different. You must do certain things first. Perhaps. you would like to follow the True Parent wherever he goes, and he would like you to do that. However, he must send you back to accomplish certain things first, before you can come to him. Therefore, would you really want to come to him even if he calls you without having done anything? Perhaps you have been longing to meet your True Parent, but just as soon as you have met him. you are destined to be separated from him again.

When you left your countries you anticipated something great. You expected to be loved by your True Parents, because you knew they would be waiting for you. Now, after ten days of training, he is ready to kick you out to the frontline. You will be faced with things more difficult than those you had back in your own country. In your own nations you had your family, parents, relatives and friends, whom you could consult whenever you were in difficulty, but here you don't have them. You are all alone. Is that good or bad? After all, you are all alone, you have to fight all by yourself in the frontline. There is no one to help you, you must know that. If you are in a race, could anyone help you to gain several paces more? If there were such a person to help you on the course, you would not be a victor. You would be accused of having been helped and the victory would not be yours. You would be deprived of that victory. Only victors in the battle can enter the Kingdom of God. The victory is victory over Satan.

You must surpass the fallen archangel in many ways. Where is the fallen archangel? Either you are in the position of the fallen archangel or there must be someone or many around you in the position of the fallen archangel. How many fallen archangels can you defeat? There are three archangels, and all of them fell at the time of the Human Fall. You must be able to restore at least three archangels. Jesus, being the Second Adam, had to have three or more disciples, who were in the position of the archangels and should have ministered to him. Without those disciples he, himself, could not enter the Kingdom of God. After the creation of Adam and Eve, the archangel was in a position to praise God, saying: "The son of your creation is a masterpiece. I sing in praise of him and minister to him." His mission was to help raise Adam and Eve up to their marriage in Holy Blessing.

At the time of Jesus, in order for that mission to be realized, God sent three wise men, representing three archangels on the worldwide level. They were led to that place by God and should have ministered to Jesus, raising him until the day of his marriage. What would have happened if the wise men, when told to go back to their country through different ways than they expected to go, had taken Mother Mary and the Holy Child with them back to their country? If Jesus had been raised there in concealment, the wise men who did that would have become world famous historical figures. I don't know if they were from one nationality or three different nationalities. If they were from three different nationalities, it would have been even better. If, after bringing Jesus to one of the three nations, he was still being persecuted, they could remove him to other nations. If they could help Jesus to grow up wholesomely, completely safe from Satanic invasion, how famous they would have become. Then who could have been Jesus' disciples? The wise men. What about John the Baptist? He would have been the fourth one. Things would have been much better. Since nothing like that took place, Jesus had to look for his own disciples, as you know.

What is lacking, then, between Jesus and the three disciples? Who or what should have been in been in between? He needed his bride. That's the completion, the perfection of the Principle. Before the Fall of Man there was God, the omnipotent; and there should have been Adam in perfection, Eve in perfection and the unfallen archangel. Those four should have been there. Those three disciples of Jesus had to have Jesus' bride before reaching Jesus. They didn't realize that. Do you realize that? Are you still ignorant of the fact? Do you know that we need the bride, or mother, to reach Jesus? Do the Christians know that they need the bride to Jesus? [No!] The disciples of Jesus did not know, but since you all know this, you are greater than they are. If you know that would you be low and humble; or proud and arrogant? If Master were still single, who would be expected to find a bride for him? According to the Principle of Restoration, the one in the position of the archangel must do that, because in the beginning, at the time of the Fall, the archangel caused the Fall. When you want to marry, suppose there only one man and one woman, then what are you going to do? That's another story. But the person in the position of the archangel was a thief in the beginning -- he robbed God of Eve; therefore, the person in the position of the archangel, if he has his wife, he must be willing to let her go back to God's bosom. In that case, the archangel is the only male and his wife is the only female, so what should he do? At the time of Solomon, King David, his father, took Uriah's wife and begot a son, Solomon. But Solomon was the king of wisdom, king of glory. Between King David, Uriah and his wife, there was a triangular situation with divine significance. The central figures in the Providence of Restoration must carry out their missions in that light, and the person in the position of the archangel must think that everything belonging to him should belong to God. If the person in the archangel's position is willing to return even his wife to God, to be used for a divine purpose, then he can reach that position through his wife. Fallen people in general must find a person in the position of the archangel and go through the archangel first, then the mother and father, and then they can reach God. Adam fell this way. If you are going to put yourself in the position of Adam, you must first of all bring in three spiritual children. Going beyond that level you will become Adam, with three archangels restored -- or you may be in the restored archangel's position, with three spiritual children. Going on to the next level, you meet your True Parents, and by engrafting yourselves to them you can become one with God. Now you are going out to do that.

At the time of Jesus he was not able to restore those three because the three chief disciples failed in following him until the end. What even Jesus failed to do, you are going to make into a reality. By having done this, you can be a restored archangel, or you can place yourself in Adam's position -- even in the position of Jesus. You must then engraft yourself to the True Parents, or you can even place yourself in the position of the True Parents to your spiritual children and become one with God. Jesus was severed from his three disciples. So, could Jesus go to the Kingdom of Heaven? No. If the three main disciples of Jesus were ready to die on the Cross together with him, God would resurrect them too. Then there would have been no persecution of the Christians. The same is true for you also -- as male in the position of Adam and as female in the position of Eve -- you, too, need someone in the position of the archangel. Not only Adam but those in the position of Eve must restore the same things. You will be in the position of parents, and under you, three children with their spouses -- like in Noah's family or Adam's family. Due to the Human Fall eight members were lost. So you have to restore them, going the reverse way.

Since you are of the Satanic blood lineage, you have to go through a complicated formality in order to become true children of True Parents. The fundamental thing is for you to bring in three spiritual children in the position of the archangels -- three archangels. In that case, you are either in the position of Adam or in the position of the archangel, who caused the Fall and has to restore mankind. You have to go through a certain formality in order to reach God or the True Parents. At that point you must become entirely one with the True Parents without looking back to the old world of your past. Without your doing that, you can never reach the Kingdom of Heaven. Now you know how you can reach the Kingdom of Heaven.

I must go back to say that you must find Adam and Eve, minister to them, serve them, be loved by them and be recognized by God. That way you can be called the children of the True Parents. Now that you know the Principle of Creation and the will of God -- the will of the True Parents -- you know how to go through the formalities -- how to reach the goal. In everything you do you must have the True Parents with you. You must be recognized by them. When you represent your family, you must be recognized by God -- by the True Parents. You must make it a rule in your life. Your first three spiritual children are restored by you on the individual level. You must multiply them by restoring spiritual children on the family, tribe, national and worldwide levels. From his side, Master must restore at least three nations. He is now developing a strategy. When he restores one nation, he can apply the formula of restoration and restore other nations in an instant. Through the constitution of that nation he can apply political methods to do that.

What are the three factors needed in order for you to enter the Kingdom of God? You have to restore the archangels first. Females must be able to restore males in that position and males must be able to restore females. Only after doing that can you have your own spouse, because you don't have anyone ready. Then you must look for and find God, and you must locate the True Parents. You must get them. Now that you have God, the True Parents in the place of Adam and Eve, and the archangels helping you -- if you say you cannot fight your way through, there is no hope for you to reach the Kingdom. In doing that you must go the reverse way of what you would like to do -- you must always be ready to serve others. You cannot stand still and call the people to your side -- they won't come to you. You must go and bring them to your side, or else you are not entitled to enter the Kingdom of God.

When you go out you will find many Americans, as well as people of different nationalities. What will you be looking for in the frontline, first of all? The three archangels. What else? The candidate for your spouse. However, you must not decide by yourself on whom to choose -- that can never be possible -- that must never be done. Your spouse must be decided by your parents. When you bring three or more people, you must be able to connect them with the True Parents, and with their consent, permission or recognition you can have them registered in the Kingdom of Heaven. What comes after that? You must multiply the number of your spiritual children from three to twelve, 70, 120. When you have gained 120 or more, those people can represent your tribe. That was what Jesus was going to realize in his three years of public ministry. Without your being greater than Jesus you cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Was Jesus married? [No!] Was he able to restore three archangels to the point where they would stay with him to the end and even die with him? [No!] The same principle applied to Jesus: he should have located three archangels (three disciples), had them blessed, and then have located his own wife. As I said before, when you are, headed for a certain goal or direction, you have three directions: left, right and rear. With you it makes four -- a very basic number. Three times four makes twelve. You have four seasons and twelve months. Every season has three months. Jesus had to go through spring, and should have found at least three disciples. That should have been done within the three years of his public career. During that time, contrary to the fact that his three disciples had to serve him, he served them and the people. That's why he said in the Bible: "I came not to be served but to serve." That's the fundamental condition to be fulfilled in order to gain the Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Heaven is either in your own mind, in your own self or somewhere in the objective position. In the latter case, you must go and get it. It will not come to you by itself. If you really recognize and understand the value of the Kingdom of God, and long to have it, you will find God abiding there already. The formality you have to go through is to find the people. How can you do it? You must give the people a great amount of love -- similar to what your mother would have for you. You want to love them, serve them as you would your spouse, your brothers and sisters -- or more. After finding many people, you will see that some of them are like your brothers and sisters, like your parents, like your children, or like your spouse.

The standard of restoring the archangel is to restore Cain and Abel. When you, as Abel, have restored Cain to the point where he can be blessed under the same Holy Matrimony as you, you will have succeeded in your mission. Therefore, after you have brought in three people, you must guide them, raise them up, so that they too can be blessed. You must bring them to a position where they must serve the person in Adam's position more than you do. Only then will you be a success. Then centering around you, your base, your foundation, will be broadened. Your foothold will become wider and wider, the more such people you bring in. For each person you bring into the movement your foothold will be doubly increased, because you can claim even the spouse to that person. Your foothold means the range of your love in the Kingdom of Heaven, which will be widened and broadened. You will be able to claim their love, and those who are united in love will not be jealous of one another. The person who brought in the spouse to your spiritual son or daughter can claim their love too, and you won't be jealous of them and they won't be jealous of you.

In the Satanic world, when you are in love with someone, there could be one or many people who are jealous of you, but it is different in God's Kingdom. When you bring in your spiritual children, you want to have them be more loved by God than you, yourself, are. You would praise and glorify that love, instead of being jealous. The Kingdom of Heaven is the place where Godly love abides. God's love will reach Adam, Eve, the archangel -- and through them, the very last man on earth. What kind of man was Abel? He was a man who was loved by God more than anyone else. Because he was loved by God, he became the central figure for other people. His responsibility was great. Even the national leaders, if they are not really loved by God more than the members under them, they cannot keep the position of Abel. If the leader is wise, he will choose at least three out of his members and serve them, minister to them by putting them in the position of Abel. He will not have failed in carrying out his mission. That man will be saved, elevated to the higher dimension of faith when he does that. The more energy you put toward that person, the more you love, him, the more you will be loved by God.

My subject this morning has been: "Our Life in the Kingdom of God." Our life should be such that it will lead us to the Kingdom of Heaven. In leading that kind of life we must be loving others and serving others. If you try to plant God's love in the heart of others and try to multiply that love, you will be a victor. You must love those whom God loves. You must serve and love the person whom God loves and you must be loved by him. When you visit a certain village, you must know that you are going to distribute Heavenly love to the people living there. You are going to make them become similar to you. If you find people who are already loved by God, doing things that are good in God's sight, you must serve and love them. If after doing that you do not get any crops, don't be discouraged; your hard work will be fruitful somewhere else. You can build the Kingdom of God by serving and loving other people. Another important thing is that you must do it while on earth. If you die and go to the spirit world, it will be harder for you to do that. You will have merit if you work with your own hands when the Kingdom of God is being built. After it is established, even if you live there, you'll have no merit, if it was built by other people. This is a great chance for you to do that. You must be grateful to be able to work for this cause.

Remember that you have to go through those four stages. You must be loved by God, by the person in the position of Adam and Eve, and by the archangel. Only after winning those four positions will you be qualified to live in the Kingdom of God. You'll have the world in your left hand, and you must plant God's love in the hearts of the people there. With your right hand you must get hold of God, follow Him, be united with Him. Then you must work on both sides serving God, serving the people, loving God, loving the people; and connect both together as the mediator. That is the shortcut for reaching the Kingdom of God. You must know that. Do not forget what I have said this morning. You must not complain as you go. You must glorify and praise God when you do those things. There are no such things as jealousy, complaint and other ugly feelings in the Kingdom of God.

God's Grief

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
January 27, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

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Sorry for being late. I have so many letters from Korea -- so informative, uplifting, and I had to instruct someone to reply; so I had to give the points -- how to answer the letters. He had to stay up until 2:00 a.m. to read all those letters, and still, this morning, he had to read more.

My subject this morning is God's sadness, God's grief. People in general don't know exactly what kind of being He is. They don't even dream of God having grief. If God be omnipotent and omniscient, how at all has God any grief? This is the general idea of the people about what God is. We have been taught by the Divine Principle that anything must have an object in order to perform give and take between subject and object. Unless they do that, they don't have any joy or happiness. Therefore, if God is the subject and He loses His object, He will be grieved. God is grieving over the fact that man, due to the Fall, went away from Him; and in the course of restoration of man, His grieving heart is more saddened when people are disobedient to Him, and more than that, the very being of Satan is saddening His heart. God is the subject to the whole Creation, while the Creation is, as a whole, in the objective position to Him. God is the subject of the human mind, and our mind is in the objective position to God as the subject.

When we are striving to come closer to God, we have to go through three points. We must have three points or three kinds of love, and that is: the love of parents, the love of husband and wife, and the love of children. Out of the three, what kind of love would come first? Love of parents would come before the other two. Then we can as well say that love begins from parental love. Then, what must be the source of parental love? We know that love was originated by God, in God. Then, we may say that love began in God as the Parent, and after His creation of man, male and female coming together in the position of parents to their children -- and there came about parental love, matrimonial love and children's love. Love begins from God, and then with man and woman put together, resembling God, they experience matrimonial love, and toward their children they feel parental love, while the children feel children's love toward their parents, and return their love to God and love revolves.

However, due to the human Fall, love started in Satan. Husband and wife were united in Satan, and they gave birth to Satanic children, and all the loves they enjoyed were Satanic ones. Therefore, without our denying the parental love under Satan, we cannot set up parental love under God. Without our denying matrimonial love in the Satanic world we cannot set up true love under God. Without our denying children's love in the Satanic world, we cannot set up children's love under God. Centered on true love, we may as well say that love on every level must have God as its ultimate subject. But, on the contrary, every type of love in the Satanic world is centered on Satan. That is not according to the Principle. Satan gets hold of parental love, matrimonial love and children's love. Those are dangling loose, but they still are in Satanic hands.

In order to restore those, we do it in the reverse order. You must grab away children's love first, next matrimonial love and then parental love. Not only take them away from Satan, but we must take those loves back into God's dominion. In doing that we must be able to separate those loves from Satanic dominion. By fostering that love under God, we must have wholesome children, fostered by God, marry each other, so that they can form matrimonial love. If they are united into one as husband and wife, and love God as the subject to them as the object put together, then, in doing that alone they will have cut off Satanic love entirely. Unless all those things are done, you cannot say that you have quite cut off Satanic love.

Due to the Fall of Adam and Eve, how many loves did we lose? Parental love, matrimonial love and children's love -- all those were lost. Then we have to restore all those loves back to the original position of higher dimension than the Satanic standard. In restoring man we have to set up the standard of children's love, matrimonial and parental love only by having won back all those loves that would suit the standard of God's love alone. We must find a standard in a man as the children of God in the perfect love of God, as the couple under God in the perfect love of God, and as parents in the perfect love of God. Out of the Satanic world, God has at least to find one such person as His child and raise him up and put him in a position to marry a spouse, and bring them to the position of parents. That person is the core of God's love and we can call him the Messiah. Then, you will see in him the true quality as the son of God, and after he has reached his maturity, you will see in him the true quality of a true husband with his spouse. Then you can see in him the true quality of a parent. Then you can recognize him as the Messiah, the son of God, the True Parent in God's sight, and then you can follow him, believe in him and minister to him. Through this man alone can you find God's love abiding and working there; and through him, after he is married, you will see a couple in God's love, with whom God will abide and love each other, and in them you will find parental love, in them God will be operating.

Why is it so? Why are all those loves revealed in that one person? It is because, due to the Fall of Adam, both God and man lost three kinds of love at once. So, God is to restore those three types of love in the man He has located as His son. By having this person restore all those three loves alone, he can commence the Providence of Restoration in other people. This man is in the place of Adam. Having been perfected, he is the only restored man in the whole world. God will raise him up wholesomely, with a girl in the position of Eve, somewhere -- just as, at the time of the Creation, He created Eve later. Those two, when they reach maturity, will be wed not of their own accord but by the will of God, in holy matrimony. When they come together, they will give birth to children and they stay in the position of True Parents.

Through so many thousands of years of human history, God has been locating that one person -- and having fostered him, He would marry that man to his bride, and then He would set up the parenthood under them. That's what it is. Even if Jesus had married a bride and set up a family, if he had not been able to have children, he could not have reached quite the standard as the True Parent, and in that case he could not stand in the perfect objective position to God. God, in a way, gave birth to Adam and Eve, and by having Adam and Eve give birth to their own children alone, the three levels of relationship of love will be perfect in its standard. In that case, God will be the internal True Parent to Adam and Eve, and Adam and Eve will be the external True Parents to their children. By internal, he means invisible, so when we go to the spirit world after our death, God will not be visible. There, too, God will abide in you. You have a mind for sure, but can you see your mind? Mind is your subject, but you can never see it. In the spirit world, too, God is something like your mind, and Adam and Eve in the spirit world will be in the position of body to God. By interpreting this way alone can our understanding be enlightened.

We have been talking about how to restore big things: our family, nation and world -- but the core of the whole thing is how to restore yourself. Establish and build the three levels of love in yourself by experiencing all those things. Then you may say what is the need of witnessing to the people? Why is it necessary? Unless you give birth to your own children, you don't realize the love of God in you. Anything in the whole world could be understood only by our experiencing it -- going through those things. By witnessing to as many people as possible and bringing those people into our movement we are broadening our base to work on, and by that experience we can find that love is being strengthened in us. By restoring yourselves, you can experience the true love of God in yourself, and then through matrimonial love your love is broadened or elevated to the next level or dimension. When you play the role of parents to your children, your love is still more elevated to the next dimension.

You must be very enthusiastic in finding those things and restoring them in yourselves. You must be able to really feel God as your loving Parent, abiding in you, illuminating you. In that case, your mind and your body must be united into harmonious oneness. Only then can you be loved by God. Have you ever experienced that kind of love? With your mind and body united into harmonious oneness, perfect oneness? If you are experiencing God's love on that level, you will be so grateful and intoxicated in God's love -- we can say that even Adam and Eve could not experience such love; you would be drunken in His love, grateful and happy. That's our desire on the first level. Would you want that? Has there ever been a man or woman who has experienced that kind of love on the individual level? The man would think, "I am the happiest man in the whole world. I am the only one who really resembles God and I am the only one who is loved by God in the truest sense." He would be the happiest man in the whole world. And if there be any such woman, she would be the happiest woman. When they reach maturity, God will be pleased with them and will be happy to bless them in holy matrimony, and there they can experience the love of God on a higher level. By their being put together they will feel the whole world is united into one around them. With the whole Creation around them, protecting them, they will feel vertical love, above them God loving them and below, their children loving them. Most of you here are in the prime of your lives, as I see you, and will expect to marry a girl or boy -- but have you restored yourself in the perfect love of God? Only after having done that will you be really happy.

You may say to yourself: "Well, he says we must marry a spouse only with God's consent; what if that spouse of mine is ugly, according to the worldly standard?" At the time of Adam and Eve, did they have a wide choice? You can imagine, perhaps, that God created Eve as a beautiful girl, but there was always the possibility of her falling down -- stumbling against something, getting scarred, with deformed eyes. What would Adam do? Even in the Garden of Eden, if she weren't careful, she might get hurt and become scarred! If that happened, do you think Adam would ask God to create another woman for him? No, that could never happen. Whether she had a scarred nose, a twisted mouth, crippled legs, or had no limbs at all, that could not be done! Adam could not kick her out. She was the only one there, the image of the female essence of God, and he had to know how to praise her, saying: "You are the beauty of all beauties and you are here for the sake of all mankind and you represent half of God's essence and I love you." How about you? Could you do that? Be honest and answer me.

In the Western world they marry each other without their parent's consent. That's not lawful in God's sight. If you marry like that there are possibilities of getting a divorce. More than anything else, you must think that your marriage is for your lineage, for your descendants. The most important thing is to leave a pure lineage. Just think back... you are born out of the lineage of your forefathers. You don't belong to yourself. It is not initiated by you. Love is the source of lineage. Love being more than your life, the lineage must be more than your life. Matrimony must be done to keep the pure lineage, and through your matrimony, you have to leave that as the tradition to your descendants. When you leave, your future descendants, your lineage, will be left, seen by the people, but your love cannot be seen. Love is invisible, only abiding and working in you. But when you obtain a pure spouse of yours and come together with him or her, you can leave children. Having a spouse means you can put two lineages together and leave your descendants to that new lineage.

In loving your spouse, you must transcend the lineage between the two of you; putting the two lineages together into one, through that union, you can give birth to your descendants, out of one lineage. If and when you love your spouse, bear in mind that that person is the fruit of the ancestry of past generations and the starting point or ancestor of future generations. You must put such vast value in your spouse. Love is something you inherit from your forefathers. In the Western world, do you really feel that you inherit love from your parents? When you marry, you are blessed by a minister, by a person you think is important or of high position. In that case, that person is in the position of the archangel. Originally, your parents must bless you in marriage. That's similar to God's blessing His children, Adam and Eve, when they reached maturity. In this case, your parents would bless you, saying, "You are my life, you are my love, you are my everything! I am so happy that you have reached maturity. I am now blessing you to be man and wife. I want you to love each other as we, your parents, have done -- and become one with each other, resembling us, give birth to wholesome children, multiplying your future generations." In that situation you must long to be like your father and long to be like your mother and long to have the love that they had. Such an event can only be imagined in a world without sin. In this movement, when you have been taught all of the Divine Principles, you will think that matrimony blessed in the outside world is nothing; you will scoff at those marriages.

Being in the position of children to your parents, would you like your parents to divorce each other? You would want harmony in the family. Would you like to fight against your parents? Not at all! Then, where does the harmonious tradition begin? From your parents, but your parents inherited that from God ultimately. The next level is from your grandparents, their parents, and their parents, etc. Children's love, matrimonial love and parents' love must be put together into one. You must have three levels of love, always. If you think of love centered around your grandparents: your grandparents, yourself and your spouse, and your children. Three, with God in the center and above, you can always form the foundation of four positions.

Of the three levels of love, which one is closest to God? Parental love. If you have your grandparents, you must really be able to love those aged people as you would God. Age-wise you must unite those three loves together: love for the old, love for the middle-aged, and love for the young. You must be able to experience those three types of love. If your grandparents are on their deathbeds, both your parents and yourselves must be in the same degree of grief and sadness. That's in accordance with the Principle. For instance, if your parents were to pass away first, both your grandparents and yourselves must be grieving over the death of your parents. Placing yourself in the center, the two other elements will always be in protection, in cooperation with you, as the central figure. In a situation where there is joy, too, if one out of the three has joy, the other two will be equally joyful. If the children are dead, both the grandparents and the parents will be equally sad over the death of the children.

Is it all right not to feel sad when your grandparents die, while your parents are so grieving? When you are old and ready to die, if your grandchildren are not sad over your death, would you be pleased? I want you girls to answer me. If you marry at all, would you like to marry a man whose parents are still alive and whose grandparents are living with him? If you like the contrary, your thinking is not wholesome. When you have your spouse you want to be all by yourselves. You don't like the idea of any other people, even your parents or grandparents, being around. Is that a wholesome idea? [NO!] Then, are you ready to marry a man who lives with his parents and grandparents? That is the most desirable ideal, isn't it? If you don't like that it means you don't like me -- because on the vertical level, God is above as grandparent, the True Parents as parent, and you as children. Would you hate to live with the True Parents and God? That is the tradition; you must live with people of three levels of love -- that's God's will. Therefore, I can safely say that those who hate to live with their parents and their grandparents cannot go to Heaven. They are not entitled to the Kingdom of Heaven. Do you understand me? One act, one scene, is over.

Our subject is "God's Grief." What must be God's grief? Where does God's grief begin? In the path of true sensation of love, in the path of heart, either happiness or grief comes about. Everything starts from love. When love is created, there is happiness. When the loving heart is lost or trodden upon, there is grief. The loss of love made God grieve; nothing else could have made Him sad. He did not want wealth, position, knowledge or any such things -- but He wanted love and He wanted to exercise love. I have said the conclusion. If God can find love in you, find in you the love of God, God will be happy over this. But if He cannot find the love of God in you, He will be saddened, grieving. If he cannot find the love of God in couples, He will be grieved. If He cannot find the love of God in parents, He will be grieved. Would you want to have God's love? How much do you want to have God's love? How much do you have God's love? You must be a dynamic object to God's love so that God's love may explode in you.

Have you ever experienced that love? Have you ever been so happy in the love of God that you had almost to weep from that love? That's not enough. You must be able to jump up and down the three levels of God's love. That love of God must connect man and the whole Creation and come back and forth between the three. When you weep, do you shed only tears? If you are really sad, three kinds of water will come out: tears, drool and sniffles. Those three will have elements in common. When you are hilarious in happiness and joy and merry-making, you shed tears with drool and sniffles flowing out. Have you ever been that happy? Have you ever missed someone enough to shed tears, with a running nose and drool flowing out? Have you ever longed for a person to that degree? If you've missed someone like that, was it for the sake of that person in the truest sense? If you reach that point, God will be right there for sure. That's the only place where you meet God -- when you are so sad, grieving, shedding tears, to have a running nose and drool flowing out -- there you can meet God.

If you cannot meet God at those two points, you can never say that there is a God at all. There is no other way for us to connect ourselves to God, except the way of the heart, and the way of love. It's very logical to say that we can meet God at those points. When you pray, you must feel that longing for God to such a degree that you shed tears, have a running nose and have drool flowing out. Only at that point will God have something to do with us.

Why is that so? When you shed tears, longing for God, you must go beyond the standard of love exercised in the Satanic world or else you will not meet God. Can you ever dream of God's loving you below the level of Satanic love? You must love each other as brothers and sisters more than they do in the Satanic world. You must love each other as husband and wife more than they do in the Satanic world, and you must love each other as parents to your children more than they do in the Satanic world. That's what Principle teaches us.

How can you do it? Should you just stay home with folded hands, weeping and sobbing, without going out to the frontlines to witness? If you are really ready to meet God, you'll do that not just by missing Him in your mind. I told you that when you miss God as the subject in relationship to you as the object, and think of Him with a longing heart, you can reach Him. That is most desirable, but things are not that way. Due to the Fall there is the Satanic force as subject to you. God cannot reach you directly because the whole Satanic world is above you like this (pointing to the blackboard), so He cannot reach you by going through the direct channel. Why is it so? In loving, you must love each other both on the spiritual and physical levels. That means your mind and body must become one with each other. The whole world of Creation is in the position of body to man as the subject or mind. So, He has to go through the Satanic world to reach you. If it weren't for the Fall, your mind could have become wholesome, so God's love could reach you immediately, but due to the Fall God has to go through the Satanic world... (pointing to the blackboard). This is myself; my truth element is here, mind, which is apt to belong to God. This part does belong to God, but we are more apt to belong to the Satanic world, since the minus elements, or our fleshly side, is stronger. Even though your mind is one with God, or tends to become one with God, your fleshly side is dragged back by the Satanic power, Satanic world. In comparison, the whole Satanic world is something like your body. Only if and when you restore your own flesh body will you meet God and be one with Him.

If you can restore your body on the family level, external level, you can meet God there. If you restore your body on the tribal, national or worldwide levels, you'll meet God there. The world of body is the world of Satan. Do you think Satan, who did not obey God, would obey you? Satan was able to hit even the body of Jesus; so, if you are not greater than Jesus, he is apt to invade you. How could you be greater than Jesus? You can, if you receive more love from God than he did. If we are supposed to receive God's love on a wider level, we must be able to restore our family in God's love and restore our clan and nation in God's love. You must make your mind a minus element or object to God as the subject, and you must be able to do this at least -- to become entirely one with God. In that case you, yourself, cannot play the role of plus to other elements, to minus elements. If you become one with God, there will be, let's say, 500 horsepower of love on your side. If you have 500 horsepower of love, but in the Satanic world they have 501, can your power defeat theirs? You must make this power stronger -- perhaps 600 or 1,000 horsepower. The stronger the power is on your side, the easier it will be for your power to conquor Satanic power. In this case, too, man's mind belongs to God and his minus elements are here on all levels -- but in order to save this man as a whole, God will come through the roundabout way to reach him or cover him, passing through the Satanic world. There is no other way for God to reach man.

In order to save one man as an individual, He has to go through the whole world, connecting everything to you. God is always ready to give you the whole world as your inheritance. By preparing the chosen nation of Israel and many things after that, He wanted you to inherit it. After inheriting everything and having your being connected with God in wholesome oneness, how much would you owe to God? God comes to save you as an individual -- going through all those stages, covering the whole nation and the whole world to reach you. You must be very grateful.

In order for God to reach an individual in Jesus' days, He had to prepare the chosen nation of the Israelites... leading that nation, which would inherit the next level of the family, governing all those things that God had in His possession. At the time of the Second Advent, God, or the Messiah, will do the same. Since you must inherit everything, He is prepared to reach you, but you must start your work and join Him, restoring everything while widening the level or scope. This mind and body together must join in perfect oneness with God... (pointing to blackboard). God must start from the top part to reach an individual, covering the whole world. I want you to know that very clearly. If you had a clear knowledge of this, you would not sit still waiting for Him to reach you, but would go out to the threshold to meet Him, out of your house, out of your station of life, returning hand-in-hand with other people to meet Him.

When the Messiah comes to you with 1,000 degrees of love, your heart of love must be the same as his. They will meet together and explode and make the whole world into one at an instant. The power of your love must be more dynamic, explosive and strong than any Satanic love, and then Satanic love will be defeated. When God's love and man's love are drawn together, like plus and minus in electricity, you can really defeat Satanic love and experience God's love covering the whole world. You will have created the climate of God's love, so that all surroundings will be in that atmosphere and know and experience God's love. All the people of the world will be swept into God's love.

God is grieving over the fact that man lost His love. Now, in order to reach you -- as He intends to -- He must go through those different stages. So, from your part, you must not stay still. You must work for the sake of God and the world, dashing out to meet Him from the other end. If the Satanic world did not exist, would God be grieve? So, the question is the existence of the Satanic world, the enemy of God's love. Unless we can liquidate every Satanic love, smashing it into naught, God's grief will remain forever. That's the way to eradicate God's grief, and that's our desire.

How can we smash the Satanic world? Because Satan knows too well that we, as children of God, are here to smash his world, he is preparing a fierce battle against us. You must know that. He won't bother with weak people, but will attack us. In order to avoid his power and win him over, we must go the reverse way. What is the reverse way like? Satan's characteristic is arrogance. In order for us to smash him, we must be humble. He would kill others in order to make himself survive, but we have to sacrifice our lives to save others. That's the reverse way we have to go. There is no other way.

We must repeat tens of thousands of times: "Those who want to lose their lives will gain their lives; and those who want to gain their lives will lose them." Satan will be afraid and will escape from us and we will survive. If you are not willing to die, Satan may be working within you and you are faced with death. If it is true that man fell in the beginning, don't you think that we have to go the reverse way in order to reach life? Our conclusion is only too natural. We must lead the kind of life, or place ourselves in the position, where Satan cannot attack us. Those who want to remove Satan from themselves, hold up your hands. When, where and how much later? Now? [NO!] In what way can you remove Satanic power from youselves? By sitting here? Then, where can you do that? Yes, in the front-line where Satan is swarming. They are waiting for us in the front-line, to fight us, and in that case are you ready to defeat them? What are our weapons to fight with and defeat them? The weapon of truth; namely, the Divine Principle. More than that, truth alone cannot do that, but love. Truth is the stick, the cane that will be helpful when we are in search of love. Then, what again is our weapon? Love? [LOVE!] God's love! Our weapon is love, higher than Satan's, stronger than Satan's, stronger than that of Adam and Eve before the Fall... Love in perfection.

If we are really one with God, in the love of God to the 100% level, there Satan can never invade, because in the territory of God's love, there is no place for Satan. With your mind 100% united into one with God, you must be ready to sacrifice your body, which still belongs to the Satanic world, and, by using your body to fight against the Satanic power, you can come back to God with mind and body united into wholesome oneness. With your mind put together with God, you want to go the reverse way. Only after you have won the people of the world, beginning with the individual, family and so on, can you really be qualified enough to return whatever you have won back to God; and only by doing that will you really have won God, on both the spiritual and physical level.

If you fight against Satan physically and defeat his power, you will be perfectly one with God, standing in the position where no Satanic power can invade you. There, you'll meet God, and will find that He was already there, waiting and searching for you. That perfect oneness with God, both on the physical and spiritual level, will place you in the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall... in perfection.

Where is the point where we will meet God? In your room or in the front-line? [ON THE FRONT-LINE!] Then would you like to stay in your room or go to the front-line? In doing that are you going to do it reluctantly, tearfully or willingly? Would you do that most unwillingly or full of enthusiasm and zeal? That is our desire. Our desire is the unity of our minds with God, our bodies with our minds, our whole being with other people. Only by doing that can we restore ourselves on the individual, family, national and worldwide levels. Let's come back to the position where we miss God very, very much. When we miss any other individual, any family, clan, tribe, nation or the whole world -- to that extent or to that degree, God will be there and waiting for us at the other end, and we will meet Him for sure to the full extent. Would you not go that way?

Therefore, why is God grieving? More than anything else, God has been sad because there has been no single person who knew God's heart -- who had this knowledge. There has been no single person like that, who could meet God in such a place; no one who was ready to fight and conquor Satan that way. Because there has never been anyone who could understand God's heart and would be ready to go through all those trials and difficulties -- however hard they might be -- to meet Him, save the whole world and return everything to Him. Now you have that kind of person with you, you have been taught this knowledge, and you know how to attack Satan and defeat him -- how to win the whole world and return it back to God's bosom; since you are ready to do that, you are most happy people. You must be most grateful to God, for this knowledge and for this readiness and zeal to fight. There are people of higher position, wealth, great knowledge in the world, but God has nothing to do with that world. Even though we may look miserable according to the worldly standard, we are the people whom God will think most highly of; we are ready to do what God would have us do.

So, God is now happy over the fact that we are here, ready to do His will; He is not grieving anymore. But in a way, He is still sad -- and He is so impatient to have you fight and conquor Satan. There are many, many elements and obstacles for you to have to go over and so, He is so impatient and so sad about that fact. We must tell Father in Heaven when we pray that we are here, saying: "We are all ready to go out and fight for Your sake and for the sake of the whole world. Don't worry about us. We will win at all costs and return the glory to You." Only in that way will we liberate Him from grief... so that He can realize His long-cherished hope of unity between God and man and unity between every true element. God sets hope in us and we have our own hopes, like a flickering fire burning in us, but we have to multiply that fire and multiply that love power and destroy the whole world of Satan to return it to God. We have now only a flickering candlelight, but we want to shed light into the whole world. The light will be multiplied and the whole world will be illuminated in the heat of God's love. So, we are the soldiers for that cause and we want to be ready to liberate God from grief.

The more difficult time we have to go through, the nearer we will be to God, so at the height of difficulties and trials you must be able to thank God for them. No longer be the person who would leave God grieving. Without Master, without you, God cannot win this world back to Himself. We are being used as His fighters, His warriors, to win against Satan. You must think about that. If you cannot realize this kind of world while our Master is on earth, you can never dream of realizing it after that.

We are placed in an awesome situation -- a dreadful situation in a way -- our every act, every thought will influence the whole world, and whether or not God will succeed depends on us. So, let us be ready with all our being to fight against Satanic power for the sake of God and the whole world. You must want to resemble God. If you should shed tears, sweat, blood for the sake of the whole world, you will find God shedding tears, sweat and blood for you. You will become the victor for sure. I want you to be courageous soldiers in the front-line in attacking and winning over Satan. If you are ready to do that, will you hold up both hands in pledge before God.

The Attitude Of The Evangelist

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
January 26, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

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You will be faced with many things in the future, so I am going to tell you about several important things. An evangelist is a mediator between God and man in order to connect those two. In the political, economic and cultural worlds, the one who is playing the role of the mediator must know clearly and precisely what is taking place on both sides. Especially, as a mediator, you must be between the two, and in that case you must not be strongly protesting what you are going to say to them in the beginning. You must be calm, showing God that you are strongly on His side; and before the people, you must be entirely like those who are on the people's side. Both parties would not like the idea of having to lose something there. So, you must be gong back and forth between God and the people; i.e., during the nighttime being with God and during the day being with the people. Both will feel that you are on their side. How to carry out your mission will rest solely on this point. You must be keen to judge what's happening on both sides and you must find out things in common between the two. The mediator sometimes must not vacillate between the two powers when the two contradict each other. That is, you must not belong to either of the two. When you are on the side of God, they must be thinking that you are doing things for them. But on the part of the people in general, they must think that you are doing things for them. You must be strictly in between, never seeming to belong to either side.

For the first few days or months, people will be skeptical about you -- there must be some reason why you're doing that -- you couldn't be doing that for nothing. During the interval, if you strongly protest with what you are going to say, they will say to themselves: "I was right, he is doing this for his own sake." In that situation, if you put more stress on what one party has you do, the other party would not like you. Sometimes you may have to put more stress on one side, but if it is found to be for the public purpose, the other party may at first be complaining, but they will know that you are a righteous man. They may be skeptical or may feel like denying what you are doing, but still they know that you are a righteous person. Though they may have to reject you and oppose you outwardly, inwardly they will think you are reliable. If they see that you are doing those things for your own sake, then they cannot believe you or trust you. If you, as the mediator, just pretend to help the other party and this one would sense it, this one is liable to tell the other person who you are and what you are going to do, then their trust in you will be broken, too. From this viewpoint we can safely say that an evangelist is a mediator, and a mediator is in the position of a public servant. That's your most important function as a mediator. I want you to know that. You must be interested in knowing the advantages and interests of both parties and you must be able to control both.

Men, children of the Fall, we know their hearts -- we know what they are. They are far below your standard. But if you feel contempt for them, they will not like you. You must be so prepared as to have them feel like confessing whatever they have in their inner hearts. In that case alone can you say you know a person perfectly. If we grasp their secrets, then we can lift our faces high, but they will come to us on their knees. If you, with all those secrets kept to yourselves, are forgiving and helping, and use that in order to help him, then he will be pleased and you can get hold of him. But if you expose his secrets, you will be his enemy. Then he will think of you as the conqueror, as the enemy who ruined his life. After he has confessed to you all his secrets, he will keep watching you, and will doubt you if you reveal those secrets to other people. If you go on keeping the secrets to yourselves, then they will trust you in the long run and will feel like having their friends, family and relatives confide in you. They would like their whole neighborhood to do the same.

So, the first thing you need to know is not to speak about another person's secrets. You want to publicize or propagate good things that you have heard from those persons but not bad things. In that case you can even dig out information from other people on your friend. You may find out how he is and what he's doing. When you talk to your friend, you will pretend that you didn't hear anything bad from the other person and praise him, telling him that Mr. Smith said a lot about him being this and that -- good things. He will be pleased. Suppose those two are good friends, but your friend has a weak point because he once confessed something to that third person and he hates having done that now. But if you tell your friend that Mr. Smith spoke very well of him, he will be really confident that the third person loves him and is really interested in him. He will become really one with that person and that way you've gained both of them. By the way you utilize your strategy, you can make two persons enemies or friends to each other.

The second important point you have in playing the role of the mediator is not to bring about a rupture among three persons in a triangular situation. Centered on you, if you have two friends, that's a triangular formation; e.g. a couple and yourself, your son, your father and yourself. If both on the opposing side will really think that you are for them, entirely on their side, they will trust you and you can easily become one with them. Don't you think so? What did I say for the second point? Not to commit or bring about a rupture among three persons in a triangular formation. That's very important.

Toward Heaven, toward God, the same thing applies with God. There is God and there must be one in the objective position to Him. For example, here is Master in the position of a complete object to God. With you as the mediator, it will form another triangular formation. If you are going to criticize this person and call him names behind his back, then there will come a rupture of the harmony. There is God above, but He cannot associate with you every day, being invisible. I am in the position of being the leader to you, but I cannot go about from place to place with you always. Then, in the front-line, what are you going to do there? How to know the profundity of the ideology of the will of our Master will be the question. You must put yourself in the position where Master will always be with you, confiding in you. If you are told to do a certain thing in secret, and if you reveal that, expose that in public and publicize that, you are not qualified for that. You must keep silent when you are told about some secret among three persons in the formation of a triangle. Then, how to be connected with God and Master will be the question while you are in the front-line without them around.

There are only two ways for you to be able to consult with them. You can consult God through prayers and you can reach Master by consulting your commander on the mobile team. If you distrust your commander, you will get nowhere. Then, you have already failed in playing the role of the mediator between your commander and the people. You must lend attentive ears to what the central person or the message of the Headquarters is, otherwise, you will not be qualified to win the hearts of the people. In that case you need to pray a lot. Especially when you are not under the direct command of your senior, your commander, and you are being told what to do, then you must pray still harder, consulting God over what you are going to do and the way you are going to do it. You have to obtain the material to reach the people, otherwise, you cannot win those people to God's side.

The mediator in the front-line must be more zealous in witnessing to people -- bringing those people into our movement -- more zealous than the commander above him. And you must return what you have won to him to please him, to ease his heart. Then, if the person you are going to witness to can realize that what they are going to have is greater than what they now have, they will be drawn to you. Let them think that they are going to gain something out of you. They are going to be men of high position, they are going to be wealthy in the spiritual sense, they will belong to God, they will become children of God -- and that's far better than any worldly thing; then, they cannot help but follow you. In that, too, you must have something more -- something greater than those people. Otherwise, they will say to themselves: "The truth is good, but I think I must wait for the Master to come to me -- I don't feel like following this person." So, you must be well armed with the truth and you must keep the dignity of Master and God. You must be far better than those people.

If you are at all going to do that, you must place yourself in the position of a public servant. That's the first thing, and then you must not violate the triangular formation by rupturing the base. That is to say, you must play the role of the peacemaker. That's why in the Bible we read: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God." If you are a peacemaker between two persons, you must be far better than they; unless they see some dignity and capability in you, they will not look up to you for that. You must be authoritative with words. You must be able to say things with authority. Words will connect those people. Action is something like actual fighting. When you have gained victory, the next question is: on what level is the victory yours? On the small or big level? In that case your ideology will make the difference. With these three points in you, you can keep your dignity as a mediator sent by God, and by doing this the result will be great and the result will be to your merit. But the same thing applies both to God and the world as a whole. Even in the secular world, when we educate people, we first teach them how to speak. Then, we teach them how to act. Then we teach them what their action will result in, when put into practice based on the idea they have. Then your authority will lie in those three points: you must know this. You must thoroughly understand all those three things. You must contemplate them, you must say things about them and in that line, put those things into practice, and make the result a success. I want you to be far better than ordinary people in those three points, and that's why I am having you go through a training course of difficulties and hardships. Now that you know all this, I want you to go to the frontline and to fight in actuality.

What level of result you will bring to me is the question -- results on the individual level, family level, national level, or worldwide level. The same thing is true with me, also. If I just talk to you about certain things and do not put those things into practice, you will not trust me. With you, too, what will be the result of my doing things is the question and to what extent I have done that -- to the family level or to a broader level of things -- that will count -- that will set the value. With these all done by me, you will come to me for advice, you will want to be taught by me, you will want to do whatever I order you to do. When I call to you to go this way, you will leave everything behind and follow me.

Therefore, first you must know how to be a public servant to people. Then you must know how to be a peacemaker in the triangular formation. Then how to keep divine dignity or authority is the next and last thing. If you have divine authority, everyone will bow down before you. Everyone will be interested in what you are saying, what you are doing. They will be ready to follow you, with you as the center. If you are with that dignity and that authority you are in the position of a mediator, and you will be able to connect God and whatever there is below. Are you with that authority? In a way you are going to study more on the mobile team. Study how to assume authority. While working on the mobile team, you must study the Divine Principle in depth.

You must learn how to act. You must study and learn how to bring about wholesome results. "Those are most difficult things! How can I do that on the mobile team?" You may think this way. But it's very simple. If you are ready to go through trials and difficulties, all other problems will be solved. Trial is the key to solution. Suppose there are many other mobile team members wanting to relax and rest, but you go on studying hard. You will be the victor over the others. When they want to sleep, you want to stay up for longer hours, and then you can gain more than the others; you are already the victor over the others. While others want to influence a certain level of people, if you are so outgoing that you want to influence a wider range of people, then you are already the victor. Do you understand?

Suppose you are invited to a big dinner party. The eyes of the secular, worldly people will be on the head table. But you want to sit at the lowest seat while you are the person invited. You want to seat yourself on the lowest seat, even though you are the guest of honor, and more than that you want to help the people to prepare -- so their eyes will be fixed on you. For the time being, the other guests will not recognize what you are and will think that you are just one of the servants; but later on, when the host comes and finds out you are doing errands, he will be astonished, and he will lead you to the highest place, and he will praise you and say that you are the guest of honor but have been helping to arrange tables, etc. And he will say that they are indebted to you and are ashamed that they let you do such lowly work, and the other guests will be appalled and ashamed themselves. In that case, people there will know that you are always ready to help others, and that you are such a humble person that you place yourself always in a position to serve others, and they will come to trust you. In doing that you have already brought some results in the establishment of the triangular formation. You are then not only a good, wholesome public servant, but you are a peacemaker, and in the formation of the triangular relationships you have already commanded authority. Doesn't that sound logical?

After all, the most important word, most precious word is "let us put ourselves into trial." In Chinese characters, the formation of the word "trial" is most interesting. (Writing on board) There are three crosses and a square. When you walk, in what way are you doing it? With three positions you are singly headed for the goal. In other words, when you walk, do you set your eyes on one point or are your eyes distracted to three or more directions? You fix your eyes on one point. Standing there, both of your sides and your rear, three sides, are not protected. Then, you must have one person on either side of you, and one in the rear, protecting you, either by action or by words. Then you are in the middle of the cross – one cross on either side and one more in the rear – you can say that you have three crosses protecting you. Expressed in another way, there are three elements of force, Satanic force on either side and in the rear. The formation of the Chinese characters is very symbolic and looks like a revelation.

The formation of the character "heaven" means two men, two persons. This word "in" means perfection, righteousness, but it's also the formation of two persons. Originally, the character meaning "man" means two souls. Man's right leg has to be cut apart as the toll of indemnity. Indemnity on the level of generation and globe. That is the character signifying righteousness, good. If you undo those strokes, this part means sheep, lamb, this is two swords -- to cut the lamb apart to put on the altar. The mouth signifies words, and through the words, when you are going to reach God, you must put a lamb, or any other sacrifice, and through the offering you can reach God. That's the character signifying "goodness". Another interesting character is "field" -- where you grow vegetables, that means "base"; here is the cross in the middle, meaning "toil". In order to make this base stable, you need four legs. This square has four angles, but when you place yourself in the middle, that's the safest place for you to stand.

Then, are you going to play the wholesome mediator, peacemaker between the people? In what way are you going to accomplish your mission? Are you going to relax, sometimes sheltering yourself in the bosom of God; are you going to hide among the people? Can you do that if you want to accomplish your mission? Those who are ready to go through more toil than other people will be the victors. Another qualification for a mediator is the authority to speak. When you speak you must look confident in what you are going to say -- never vacillating, never vague. If you vacillate, they will detect that and they will think, "Well, I can say better things than that." In the beginning you must be better listeners to other people, but after awhile, when you are going to speak, you must be dynamic and you must surprise them and they will think you can be a real leader for them. Your words, your speaking is something like fencing with swords. You must have keen observation as to where to wield your sword. When the other person is absentminded, you are going to pierce through that point. You will apply your technique and capability in wielding the sword. Using your words must be something like that.

Before anything else you must closely study that person. You can point out the fact that he is from a certain family background; has been thinking, saying, doing things in a certain way – pointing out all those facts. Then you can point out yourself, saying you that you are going to be a mediator among all the things you have done. Then you can give to your people, but I don't want you to end up with being history, and they will know that you are far beyond them. This person will be captivated by the sword of your words. You can even propagate what you are; e.g., a university graduate, qualified for this and that. If that's the case, you can say, "But I have had to quit my schooling, my university in order to work for this great cause, and you, as a qualified college graduate, must do greater things than I." You can stimulate a person like that. There will be times when you are defeated in the battlefield of witnessing, and when you come back in the evening, you must not sit still, you have to do something. Some of you may be disappointed and say that you cannot go on. But instead come what may, I want you to think and take it as a challenge and say, "I thought you were a whale, a big man, but you are just a tiny shrimp. What I have been faced with will not put me in despair." If you are defeated by that small shrimp and fall back appalled and discouraged, you cannot keep your dignity as a son of God. So, you will recoup your strength and go out and fight again. Then, you can say to that person, "Wait a bit longer and I can win you over," and you study very hard. Next time when you visit him you can say to him, "I misunderstood your question the other day, so my answer must have been wrong." Never tell him that you were weak in answering or that you did not know how to answer – never say that. Say, "I misunderstood your question. I thought it over and realized that I misunderstood, so my answer must have been wrong." Again: never tell him that you were weak in answering or that you did not know how to answer. You can wield the sword of words at that time. You must at all costs make him a failure before you. Then you can ask him if he has any more questions and he will not dare to ask more questions. That's strategy. You learn more through what you are going to do, out of experience.

The marathon winner in Germany in 1972, who set up the world record at that time, may think he can still win with that speed in a future race. He is mistaken. Nothing is more erroneous than that. He must work harder in practicing running. The more you speak, the more experience you have in speaking to other people, the more skillful you will become. I told you to be a mediator. If you play the role of a perfect mediator, you are going to inherit things from both sides. Isn't that true? If anyone of you is a good peacemaker, good mediator between the commander of your team and the team members, in the near future you yourself will take the position of the commander, because you are qualified for that. You can inherit that. There is no doubt of that. Doesn't that sound logical? Is there anything wrong in this? When Jesus said he was the mediator, it was his greatest utterance. If he plays the role of the mediator on the side of God and if he is doing things for the sake of the people, then he is going to be a really good mediator. He can be the central figure between the two. In that case, he must be working for the sake of the people at the sacrifice of himself. Then he will win the trust of the people. You must know these three things in order to qualify you to be the mediator.

Here is an English gentleman with a handsome face (pointing to someone in the audience). But if you fail in carrying out your mission -- being a good public servant and peacemaker, and fail in keeping the divine dignity and authority, then the people will never follow you; and not only that, they would want to poke your eyes out, cut your nose off, cut your ears apart and carve your mouth out. You must be really serious when you are in a position to be the leader. The position of a leader in this movement is to carry out the divine course. If you do wrong you are committing sins. Your failure influences other people, too, so you are committing something very serious. On Master's part, too, he has been struggling hard not to leave dishonor or distrust to the people. I want the people, when they leave our movement, not to call me names. In that case they would not say that they are falling because of me but because of certain other people. If there is anyone in your family, when falling away, who would say that he cannot go to that church, go to that place, because of the leader there, then you are a failure already. But when they say they cannot go to that place because they hate one of the members, then that's okay.

Being a public servant is something like being a person without anything you can claim as yours. Your everything, your whole being, is for the sake of this man and that man. People on both sides may have to think that what you have is theirs and they can get something out of you. Unless that takes place you cannot call yourself a good public servant. If you call yourself a public servant, that means that you have no share to claim as yours, and yours will come last. Don't ever think in advance, "I am going to be on the mobile team working for a great cause and after that I can win the trust of Master and then I can be blessed and can be included in the blessed family." You must not be calculating all those things beforehand. In that case, you are not a good public servant. You would be a thief -- robbing him of what's good. Before anything being yours, it would belong to God -- to the people of the world. Your portion must come last.

In man-to-man relationships, in the triangular formation, you are on the verge of danger. Whether you will be trusted by the people or not will lie solely on that point. In a way, man is more fearful than Satan -- more dreadful. In a sense he is more dreadful than God. God is doing only good things while Satan is doing only evil things. But man, in between them, will vacillate -- sometimes belonging to God's side and sometimes belonging to the other side. But you, as the leader or mediator must go straight forward, never vacillating. When you bring in the people, then it means that you have engrafted that person to yourself. So, what you have given in doing that will make him what he is. If you have given poor nourishment to him, he will not grow wholesomely and your spiritual children, however many you have raised, if you have not been good to them, their fruit will not be wholesome. So, in meeting even a single person you must not do that without concentrating on that person – focusing your attention.

Suppose you have met some 20 people in a day. Roughly divided, they are two kinds of people – always. The result will tell you, will reveal how qualified you are. You have met more than 20 people a day, but with your not having much experience, those 20 will oppose you, what you have said, After three days' or three weeks' experience things will be different. Not three months but three years -- after three years, some conspicuous change will be brought about. We know what it is with our three-day course, seven-day course, three-month course or three-year course. After that, our road will be paved.

In a few days you will be out in the front-line. You must be very enthused in knowing what kind of person will be the first one you meet. A girl? A boy? An old woman? A laborer? A scholar? Have you imagined and have you decided on that? Whom to speak to? You must plan to do things: for instance, at 7:00 I will leave my bus for somewhere and I will reach there after 10 minutes -- in front of a house, etc. There I will be waiting for the first person to come across -- with great anticipation I will do that. Suppose there is a man appearing on the corner, would you just stand there blank with twinkling eyes? You must get ready. As soon as you glance at the person, you must be able to catch his age, his position -- you must be able to get ready to know how to tackle him. Very possibly, the first one you meet could be a jolly young man whistling, singing as he walks, then what would you do? Would you look at him with a serious face and ask him why is he is singing like that? You can even dance to the music, his song, and he will look at you and he cannot but stop there. Then you can become his friend right away. You don't have to witness to him, he'll just come to the Center. That's nothing to laugh about. That could happen.

The first person you meet could be an aged woman leaning on a cane or a crippled man walking like this -- you could meet any kind of person. Have you ever stopped to think like that? If there comes an aged woman as you have imagined, then you can tell her that you like old women like her and she looks like your own grandma and you would like to visit her home, and would she let you do that? If it is a man, you can ask him questions and ask him if you can visit him at his home. If you train yourself in that line, after awhile you can read their faces, their fortune: what his family background is, what his educational background is, and what he's thinking right at that moment. You may play the role of the person in the objective position to that man in the subjective position and that man may be caught and you can get hold of him. In the way of disposition, too, if he is very receptive, meek and mild, you will be attractive and he will be attracted to you. If you find the other person a male who speaks in a feeble tone like a woman, then you immediately see that he longs to feel masculine, so you look as masculine as possible and this person will immediately think that you are the person whom he needs. If you apply those tactics to what you are doing, you will make your work a success in the immediate future.

Before going out, you must be resolved to do certain things. At least you must be resolved not to make your first experience a failure. On the other hand, you must expect something very difficult, miserable and all that in your witnessing. Then you must fix your attitude to face that situation. If you have wholesome crops, you will return them to please God. You are leaving in a few days and the first thing you must do on the mobile team is to study people. If you have been analyzing the personalities of your friends, your family, your neighbors until now, with that experience you can make further research on what kind of people are around you. Your guesswork will prove true for the first few days -- at first, maybe twenty percent, then thirty percent, then forty percent, fifty percent, and finally reaching one hundred percent.

People you meet will be the material to work on and to be used to face more people. In the past you have not been doing that quite so seriously as you are now, but in this case you are going to analyze the personality of every person, and then you are going to apply that to meeting more people. You can read the faces of the people. If you are talking to that person and then all of a sudden you find that this person is thinking of something else, in that case, his eyes will tell you. When that person is talking to you, you can stare at his eyes and you can detect what kind of person he is and what he is thinking right then. If you are at that moment spiritually well-armed and would pierce your glance through that person, he would be disunited and he would fall back. So, you must know how to catch all those things.

In the year 1970, when Master did his matchmaking, he could match some 270 Japanese couples within ten hours' time. He would have them stand so that he could look at their faces; then he would pick out two and have them go into the other room to talk with each other -- and when they came out they would say yes. But he was not doing that at random. There was some theory working through him and he could catch things at a glance. He would influence those people and the later generations of those people, too; he knew that too well. In this couple I find things contrary to each other (pointing to a couple in the audience), but still they will complement each a little later, they will be in harmony with each other. There is some lack of something in his mind -- if he says okay in his mind – it will hit -- from the way the people walk he can tell all the qualities in them. People have a different way of walking, different way of expression. Right after a glance, he would point out a certain person's disposition and he was surprised to know that he was correct in that. I stand here talking to you, but in my mind many things come back and forth. I will guess and say that that person will not like this in a minute and that happens. I see a person dozing off in a comer and I say to myself I will wake him up in five minutes and I do that. I don't have to hit him on the head, but if I mention him, then you will all laugh and he will suddenly wake up. Maybe I scream at the top of my voice, or I will walk near to him and he will sense that and wake up.

There is profound mystery in your eyes. When I tell you some interesting, good, happy stories, your eyes assume light, and your eyeballs roll in a very heart-lifting way. They may even be tearful, but with tears of joy. When I tell you sad things, your eyes lose their light and become tearful, but the tearfulness will be different. When you are not interested in the things taking place, you begin to doze off. When you are serious, your eyes will twinkle. Your eyes, symbolizing God, can be receptive of both goodness and badness, happiness and unhappiness. If you stand here talking to the congregation, you will immediately catch who is the most attentive, responding most, and who is disinterested. If you are serious, every part of your head will be focused on that, narrowing down its scope.

So, as the mediator and an evangelist, you must know how to look into their eyes. Your eyes must look in such a way that will please other people and catch their attention. In their head there are only two things moving: your eyes and your mouth. If your eyes look happy, your mouth will immediately be frozen like this -- in the subject-object position. Your expression is very important when you witness to people. It is because your expression comes before your words. When you handle people, you feel that you can read the people. But it's not easy as it may seem to you. Your facial expression is important; then your attitude is important. Your motions, your words and finally your action will influence the people. First your expression, then your attitude, then your words, and finally your action. You know that your words and your action would come after those things -- expression and attitude. Why don't you look at yourself in the mirror. If you find that you look too serious, you must practice making your expression a little sweeter. Don't let the people imagine what kind of person you are. Let them think that you are this kind of person and let them find that you are different and with more qualities.

Reiner [Vincenz] (in the audience), I want you to comb your hair tidily with some hair tonic, because your hair is too curly. When you wear hair tonic your members will think that something great is going to happen -- you are going to visit some dignitaries or something. With your long face and your curly hair you should not have a pointed collar. You must have the people look at your necktie first and then your face. Your appearance is already sad, but if they find that your taste in choosing neckties is great, then they would look up at your face and they'll think you are handsome. When you have a narrow and long face like his and your necktie is narrow like this, then it looks rigid. A man with long legs like his would walk like this... (demonstrating). You have to practice walking in a smart way. You have a pointed nose, a little twisted on the right side. Why don't you build the habit of having your face a little like this... (demonstrating).

To be natural is the best thing, but you must know how to adapt yourself to the environment. Suppose there is a strong wind and the willow branches swing to the motion of the breeze. If there is a storm, you must know how to attack the storm. In order to be a leader, you must be at home in every artistic field -- you must have every element of every walk of life. You must know how to learn good points from many people with many different qualities. Now you have learned how important are your expressions and attitudes. For women, I advise you not to walk like that... (demonstrating). He hates to see our women's hips swinging like this. When you walk in a skirt, and if you walk that way, your hips will swing from side to side. I can tell that girl is going to be a widow if she walks like that.

The way you laugh can determine your fate. If in smiling you hold up your head like this -- that symbolizes that you are going to have good fortune and will be happy, but if you smile and laugh down like that, that's not good. In Oriental philosophy, many such things are taught, and there is some profundity in it. Things observed opposite from the point of view of your being in the center of heaven and earth, are above and below you.

I must again tell you to be a good public servant and good peacemaker and good triangular relationship maker, and to keep and shine out the dignity of God through you; and, added to that, more points: One, how to express -- how to make your expression in a wholesome way -- how to keep your attitude sane and sound -- how to act out things and say things. I want you to be persons with weight and depth, so that other people will not have found you out in a few days, but you should be a person in whom people will find more and more things over a long span of time. As a leader, you must have that quality. Did I make myself understood? Don't reveal all you have in an instant. In the Communist world, their strategy is kept to themselves, but in the democratic world, they are ready to reveal what they have as their tactics. The evil force of Communism will defeat the democratic world, because they keep their secrets to themselves. In a peaceful world it may be all right, but in this world today, in the Communist world, where Communists keep their tactics separate, they can win this world. As long as the democratic world keeps their tactics revealed and open to everyone, they cannot help but be defeated. Even those who are close to me have never detected all I am, what I am and how I am doing things. Sometimes I am like a child, giggling and playing with the boys and girls, and sometimes I am so dignified as to be friends to very old people.

We find many, many different qualities in our Master. He has so many qualities covering the extreme ends. When he goes hunting, he is a good hunter and our members are surprised to know that he is such a good hunter. He is a good fisherman and meditates deeply so as not to hear anything said or any sound when he goes fishing. So, we cannot readily define what kind of man he is. Some may think that our Master is such a serious man, slow to anger, quick to act, but he is sometimes as furious as fire, dashing out to do things all by himself. He is so aggressive. You must study him, study any other person and learn the good qualities from all those people.

You are going out to the front-line anyway in a few days. There are two more things I want to tell you. When you witness to a person, don't ever dream of gaining anything from him. You must be ready to give out things -- you are going to lose everything. You are going to give at the sacrifice of yourself. You must be prepared to repay God because you are indebted to Him -- don't ever think of drawing something out of God, because you are indebted to Him. So, in what way are you going to repay Him? You are also indebted to me. Do you realize that? You are a debtor and debtors cannot lift up their faces without having paid the debt. In what way are you going to repay your debt? If you are told to repay God, repay heaven, that's beyond your power -- that's not within your power. Both God and Master, himself, very fortunately would not have you repay them, but by working for the sake of other people you will have repaid them.

If you really realize you are so greatly indebted to God and to Master, then you'll want to pay all those things to the people of the world. When this person realizes that he is not the creditor, and you are not in a position to have to repay him, he will fall on his knees before you. He knows too well that he is not qualified to receive that as the payment of what should be returned to God. You are going to do that through whatever person you are witnessing to. You can reversely think of that person as your liberator, because without him you would have no way to repay your debt to God and to Master. "I am indebted to God on the individual level, family level, national level and universal level. But I am going to repay that debt to God by serving that person." The person is so dear to you -- the family and all are so dear to you because without the family, nation, clan and whole universe you have no way to repay God. When you think of things in this way, your witnessing to other people is the way you repay your debt to God.

When you want to repay the debt, would you do that unwillingly? You must give at least your heart to that person -- to repay that person. If you want to repay that debt through that person and he is not receptive to you, then you must find yourself not having been warm or zealous enough to do that. If you are all zealous and all willing to repay that debt through that person and he is not receptive and he attacks you back, God will take vengeance on that person. He will not leave that person alone. God's direct judgment will fall on that person. That's what evangelism is -- the witnessing job is. That is the way to liberate the whole population of the world under the bondage of sin and Satan. How wonderful it is to have that kind of job.

If you are loyal in repaying the debt through that person whom you are witnessing to, there is nothing more important than that. Do you realize that you have to have that person gain something out of you in witnessing to him? Only in that way can you repay the debt you have toward God. Do you realize that? Then, you will not be put to shame before God and before people. Do you understand? You must remember at all costs the conclusion. You are indebted in so many ways that you have sometimes to repay the debt with your eyes, your nose, your mouth and every sense of yours.

You have now joined in the great cause of this movement -- to witness to people in such a way that you will be giving out yourself, your whole being, your everything. You must feel the blessedness of belonging to this group, especially when you are single boys and girls. You have a vast future of promise before you. People will be attracted to you and will think highly of you, and I hope that you fight through the battle and make it a victory. In a word, you are going to witness to the people at length for your own sake. At long last you will have worked for your own self, not for God, not for the people, but for your own self. In your doing that the whole spirit world will be mobilized to help you, in aid and cooperation with you. You must be grateful for that. Do you have that attitude? Are you ready to fight in the battlefront? (YES!) Then I will be proud of you.

Where Are You Bound?

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
January 24, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

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Up to this date there have been so many people thinking about where they are destined to go. If you see men of knowledge, men of tradition, men of wealth, you envy them. From what point did they start in the beginning? What did they want to do, that they became that way? We will find many various motives. When you see many people in hardship and struggling, you sometimes imagine from what point a person must have started. What must have been his purpose at the starting point? One may be in quite a successful status, one may be the other way around, but both of them could have been the same or different at the starting point, we don't know. It could be true that the one who is successful now was just nothing at the starting point, while one who is a failure now was a man of position at the starting point. Sometimes we think it is unfair. If his motivation was right and good, he should have succeeded, while, if the motivation was wrong, he should have been a failure. But we cannot tell by just seeing them at the point where they are right now. One who is a success now may be a failure in the end -- while the other, who is seemingly a failure, can become successful in the end.

In light of general judgment, we can well say that one who started the course from good motivation must win the goal in success, while the other who started the goal from evil motivation or purpose must end up in evil. If that is not true, we must define that goodness is not something that is eternal. In a word, we can define a good person as unchanging and an evil person as changing and vacillating all the time. The original mind of humankind is to start with the things which we think are good and keep on doing those things -- not changing and vacillating in the course of time. If there be any God at all, He would be on the side of good, trying to make His career a success. Then, what is the "End of Days" or "Last Days"? The history of good and evil have barely passed a crossing point, and from now on, the real goodness and evil will be separated. What will come out of them? What is good must be lifted up high, while what is bad or evil must decline. We can reach that conclusion. But the people in the world can never define which is good and which is bad according to the truest standard.

Hitherto, people had thought Democracy was on the side of God. But people are gradually thinking about the possibility of Communism being better than Democracy. The general idea of man still is that Communism is something evil. Democracy has many defects and disadvantages in it, but it is still on the side of good. What makes the other people think that Communism is better than Democracy? Up to the present moment the people of Democracy have thought that Democracy must be strong to fight against evil. Good must be something stronger than the evil force. But now they find that Democracy is somehow very weak and they struggle to fight against the evil power. There seems to be no possibility of their winning over the evil ideology. On the other hand, the evil power of Communism is seemingly stronger than democracy. That brings about confusion and chaos. If God is there, and God is ultimate and absolute Goodness, and if He is omnipotent, He must make good win over evil, so why does He leave it as it is?

Man's desire throughout human history has been to have goodness win over evil. He has believed that whatever the condition he may be in, if he struggles at the cost of his life for goodness, he will win over evil in the end. That's what made men strong enough to fight through their lives, even though they may have had to go through untold difficulty. That kind of action has been left in historical record. In Democracy we think highly of goodness and righteousness, but if an evil power should attack you and you are at the verge of life or death; if the evil force were to put a sword at your neck and ask you if you will go on like this -- threaten you by saying, "If you go on like this I will cut your head off," could you [with the ideology of Democracy] be so strong as to go and do what you think is right?

In the U. S., which is the leading Democratic nation, all the people want to live in Democracy and freedom, but when Democracy is endangered, how many people would want to die fighting the attacking force? As I understand it, here in the U.S., policemen think their lives are so dear, they don't like to fight against gangsters, because in doing that, there is a possibility of their being killed. They are not fighting on the side of good at the cost of their lives. That means that if there be any stronger power than Democracy, even though it may be evil, they are willing to be defeated, because their lives are so dear to them. If in the other force the people come at the cost of their lives, the people on this side are apt to be defeated. If, in the other ideology, or other force, the ruling class of people would force the people under them to fight against this force and they come in unity and in oneness, the people under Democracy are apt to be defeated by that power. Before the threat of your life, the people in Democracy are apt to surrender to the evil force -- even the State Secretaries and the President -- maybe they want to survive -- live on -- even though they may have to surrender to the evil force -- that's what it is in Democracy. On the other hand, in the evil world, if they go in harmony and unification and as a strong, unified force, and they believe what they are doing is right, in that case that power will win over the other.

In the Communist world, even though they think that what they are doing is evil, they have to do that, they are forced t do it. They are doing things at the cost of their lives -- even though they may be on the verge of death. In this Democratic world, people, though they think what they are doing is good, they are not willing to go to the point of death. Then, which power will be triumphant over the other in the end? The evil force! It is because there is evil force all around that Jesus told his people to be so brave as to lay down their lives in doing things for the sake of good. Only people who are doing that can win over the evil force. Also in the present days this is so. Otherwise there is no way to win over evil.

If there be any group of people in the world now who will volunteer for this job and who will fight on at the cost of their lives, that group must be the strongest in the whole world and God will set His hope in that group. That's more than clear, but when we look closely into ourselves, are we really devoted to that cause and are we really qualified to be members of that group? How do you find things? If that group is ours, if that place is here, what would happen? After awhile some of you may say to yourselves, "Well, I have only one life to live, why do I have to go through such struggles and hardships? I want to enjoy my life. I am in the prime of my youth and I just hate to live spending my youth in such bitterness." On the other hand, some others may think that it is worthwhile living in this way, "I have one life to give and I will put my whole life in this business for this cause. That will make my life a valuable one." To which group do you want to belong? Those who want to idle away their time and enjoy their lives -- or the people who want to die for a great cause and take it as a valuable life? [The second!]

Then, where are we destined to go? There are many forces around you waiting to drag you back: your friends, neighbors, brothers and sisters, parents, clan and your nation. There isn't much power trying to push you forward or back you up. What are you going to do? You are now in the U.S., with great hope, but after a while you will get homesick. This huge land will seem to you to be barren fields, you will feel all alone and feel lonely, you will miss your parents and your brothers and sisters and your friends. What will you do? Sometime later you will think, "Oh, it usually takes a lifetime to change a fallen family to a prosperous one and this man says he is confident to make this whole world turn upside down during his lifetime. He is crazy, I cannot believe him." You will be faced with that. In the course of time, if you enjoy your life, if you dance, eat good things, wear good clothes, that may be soothing, but if Master drives you out into the field and what you hear is only battle cries, can you stand that? You will find that he, the Devil, will have to slap you on the cheek and kick you in the back because this is the battlefield. Would you be happy or appalled? There may be one who would like to turn away, but he will turn around and come back.

With me you may have faith and have confidence, but later on your boss will be the mobile team commander -- an American man on each mobile team and you will say to yourselves, "I came because I know Master is a great man and he is going to lead me to the goal of goodness. I knew that and that's why I came, but this man is not quite that way, and he commands me all the time and he is not really qualified; he tells me to do this and that; sometimes he chastises me and disciplines me according to his own way, but I don't agree with him in this and that." Then, what would you do? More than that, you will find among the mobile team members those who are weaker and in many ways less then you and sometimes you have to serve them, and they are more experienced people and they are in the leading position and you have to obey them. You will hate the idea of your having to obey them.

When you go out to meet the people in the outside world, you will be faced with more difficulty. If you are going to meet 100 people, you must be sure you are going to be faced with 100 difficulties. If you are out to complain against those people, you cannot dream of going away. Isn't that true? "From what I heard from Master," you may think, "well, it is all right, we cannot belong to the Communist world and we are not quite willing to go on living the way they do in the Democratic world. We have to do something to make this world a better one and a world of goodness under God. That's why I am here. But I am not quite strong enough to do that. May I go back to my own country? I am not quite brave enough to be a soldier, so may I go back?" All those things will come to your mind. Then, you are forced to go this way. You find no other way to go than this way -- this path.

Some may think, "I think I have to leave now. I want to marry a worldly man or a worldly woman according to the worldly standard." Go on and do that. You will find yourself in utter misery. Some may say to themselves, "I hate to see these people. They are too strong in so many ways! I want to conceal myself in some small village." But our team will visit from corner to corner and you are destined to meet our group. We have one of those cases in England: there is a Japanese boy who had been so many years in the movement and he somehow felt like running from our movement. But finally he came to England and on the street, he was witnessed to by our British members. He had to come back, and now belongs to the English Family.

When you feel low and gloomy, you may think it is foolish to do this work in this movement, but why don't you look back at your own brothers and sisters in this movement. Are they fools to have joined this movement? Have they been doing all these things for nothing? Are they at all more foolish than you? No! They're bright people. Master, too, he is not a foolish man at all. He is good at everything. If he felt like escaping from this Providence, he would have done that long ago. If he had done that, he wouldn't have to put you through such difficulties. Do you think it is an easy job to gather and call these people from the European countries and train them? He has only a handful of people from each nation who don't speak English well enough to be understood very easily. They are quite young in the movement; have various inclinations and dispositions and various family backgrounds. How can I train you to be Unified Soldiers, to fight against the evil force? The great nation of the U.S. has not been able to do it. The strong force of Communism has not quite done that. Am I going to do that with this small number of people from various backgrounds? [YES!] Your faith will save you. Normally speaking, that cannot be possible.

I have spent the best part of my life doing this and in doing this I have always consulted with God. In the worldly sense, I am not a successful man, but I have the greatest of all the powers because I believe that under me there are men that are ready to die for me because they believe that what I am doing is for the sake of God and for the world. Are you sure of that? If so, hold up your hands. In doing that, I am not going to force you to do that or make you do that by violence. You are willing to do that, I am sure. From my part, too, if I had found any way to run away and be saved, I would have done that, but like the fish trying to swim away but is still in the ocean, I am like that.

Do you really imagine or believe that Master is going this way because he is all willing and happy to do this? [YES!] Thank you, but I have my gloomy days and low hours, too. That's not because I am discouraged, but because I find that I have not quite influenced you to go the right way and because I have not quite done that amount of work in time, but I feel the urgency of having to do this work in time. I know too well that after a certain period of time this world will be one under God and I've got to make it in my lifetime, even though sometimes I feel like running away from my job. I know too well that in the spirit world, after I die, all the spirit men will accuse me of not having been able to accomplish my mission and having thus nullified God's dispensation, while God trusted me and laid everything in my hands. While I know all those facts too well, I cannot help but go this way. Master knows that if he is a failure, in the future his descendants and the future population of the world will scoff at him and, knowing that our ideology is the leading one -- being from God -- they will somehow be able to unify the whole world under this ideology and they will scoff at me and say that I was a failure -- being the founder I was a failure and I will be put to shame. The future generations, who will have established the Kingdom of God on Earth -- which will surely be done -- and will have gone to the Heavenly Kingdom of God ... when they see him down somewhere, they will point at him and they will say, "That's Mr. Moon, that's him." How will I feel? We sometimes feel like accusing Adam and Eve in the spirit world, for their having been a failure. Don't you feel like doing that? The same would happen with me if I were a failure.

I respect God, love God, but I fear God also. I fear the people around me having to accuse me of being a failure. So, I have got to go and I have got to make this project a success. Fear will surge into my mind if I think of that. That's what makes me or forces me to go this way. If I've got to go, I want to go in happiness and zeal; then one of my burdens is how to drag you people who are not willing to go with me -- to follow me. That is the most difficult problem.

On my belt there are many, many things dangling down. One bottle of bitter medicine, one bottle of sweet things, a club, a rod, a needle for acupuncture. For those who get sick I have to give them bitter medicine to be cured; for those who are discouraged I have to give them sweet things to be cured; for those who are idling away their time, I have to prick them with a rod or with a club; for those who are dozing or slumbering, I have to give them the needle and awaken them. You are apt to misunderstand me. You want to have sweet things, but I will give you bitter things, because I want to cure you. I know your disease. Sometimes when you don't want to be beaten, I will beat you and you will be appalled and there are many such possibilities ahead of me in leading you. I have done that through my life until my age of 53. At 53 a man's life is beyond the peak. But he knows on the spiritual level he is descending right now, but for another peak he is destined to go. He is a man who would walk with his feet on the ground but looking up at another peak, while there is a valley below. He is going down into the valley, so when he looks up he will find Heaven, the next peak, higher and higher. He will be in the valley of despair. More than that, the people he is guiding will be like that and in that case as the general, he has to kick them to be awakened and have them gather new strength to climb up the peak. If he would let them alone, they could collapse right there in the depths of the valley. Then, the general must kick them or beat them or shoot them or else they would not gather the courage to climb up another peak. If he would leave them there in the valley, they would remain in Hell. But if they would begin to climb up and die there, they would be headed for Heaven. Would you like me to leave you alone in the valley of death? Or to stimulate you to climb up to the peak so that you can have the Kingdom of Heaven? On the battlefield if I have to kick you or tread on you, would you mind? [NO!] That will happen, I am serious. Are you sure you will try to go up or will you escape down and down to the depth of the valley and slip away? However difficult it may be for you, you have got to at least try to climb up. Maybe I will have to fasten a rope under your arm and with those ropes in my hand I will climb up ahead of you and on the peak, I will pull you to make you gain the top. Would you want me to do that? [YES!]

Where to go is not only your question, your problem, but mine also. Sometime ago there was a seemingly vague future in our movement, but now you have seen the crops, you have seen how much we have gained. You know that what we are doing is something that will last through eternity. So, you are wise to follow me. In this world even the president of a nation will last four years at the best -- or eight years if he is re-elected. After that, he would be just like any other man. In this world, when a president or any man of authority is retired, he is a lonely man -- he has not had as many visitors as he used to have. But in my case, when I retire, there will be more and more visitors who will come to see me. Why is this so? If the people of the world really know the value of this truth, the ultimacy of this ideology, they will want to meet me face to face before my death. So, the older I get, the more people will want to see me while I am on earth -- so I will have more and more visitors all through my life. Isn't that true? When I think of that, I think I am quite a successful man. Don't you, national leaders, have this kind of thought? I think that if I visit your country, you want to put me in the best possible house. You want to buy the best car for me and take me to wonderful places. You want to do everything in your power. Aren't you that way? I am the kind of person whom you would want to stop from going away. You want to have me with you, while in many other cases, if you have guests, you would want to have them leave you after awhile. In that too, I think I am a successful man. Don't you think so? But if you look back at my past history, I have not gone through that kind of stage, being welcomed by everyone, being received by everyone, but I have gone through persecutions and difficulties. Everyone shunned me, turned away from me, hated to see me and called me names. I have gone through that stage of life. Some perhaps thought that there were reasons for my having to go through such difficulties and persecution. "He must be a bad man or must be doing wrong things or his ancestry must be evil." They can possibly think that, too. At that time those who persecuted me looked down upon me, at best with merciful eyes, looking down upon me. But they had found Mr. Moon going up and up like this and they're down here looking up at him. Now you can see that. You are now in that stage and can start from it.

Where are you bound? Where are you going from this point? Upward. Are you ready to climb up the mountain? In going up, are you going to go up in a zigzag way or straight up? [STRAIGHT UP!] You are impatient, you want to take a short-cut and go the straight way. But after awhile you will find that this is the steepest way and you will be faced with a wall-like thing in front of you. Then, what will you do? Looking down you will get dizzy and looking up there is too much there, like a steep rock. What will you do, you can neither go up nor down. Then, you must stop and think. Looking down you feel dizzy, so you have got to look up and try to think which way you can reach the peak. Looking around, you will find some root of a tree or some pointed edge of a rock to hold on to. You wonder if there is any crack between the rocks. You find a big tree but it's beyond your reach. However, you will imagine that if the tree is as big as that, the root must be very strong and perhaps has been spread out, and one of the roots may be near you. If you find the root set behind the rock, making a crack, then you must know how to make a fire and you may be so wise as to burn that wood and there you can make coal. You can even learn a lesson from a spider which may be there. You can even put a fine thread on the hip of that spider and he will carry it up and if he comes down the second time, you will do the same in such a way that he will carry many fine threads up and set it on an edge of the rock high up somewhere. God will help you somehow. You can even utilize the insects, the frogs you find there and if they are there, they are for you. Anything and everything there is for you. I cannot imagine his imagination [Mrs. Choi]. In the face of death, you may perhaps have to carve out a pound of flesh from your leg, fasten a rope around it and throw it up to one of the rocks up there. An eagle will come and try to carry it away and in doing that, he will have that piece of meat on the peak of the mountain and after eating the meat, the rope will be there behind the edge of one of the rocks. There will be ways open, if you struggle hard to find one. While you are on the verge of life or death, you must never be excited, angry or disappointed. But you calm down in deep meditation and intensity of nerve and you can ask Father, consult with Him, or meditate within yourself for wisdom and you will be given that. Prayer comes last. You must try to help yourself for wisdom and then God will be there. In that case you have got to be bound for the height of the mountain. If you try to slip down, you are done for -- there will be no way. But if you try to go upward, there will be ways open to you. If you think that it is more than what you can do, stop there and think. Think in a more difficult way -- you try in a more difficult way than the difficulty and then you will get over that.

You say that you are in the prime of your youth -- but as I see it, you have at best seven years or more of youth, and then very possibly the young people will spend so much time contemplating what to do and in doing that, they idle away all their prime time -- so it is wise for you to find the great leader, and then by following him, you will make your life a success. So far I have paved the way for you and many past religious saints and leaders have shown their effort and have struggled. Now you are safe to follow me and you are going to make your lives a success and will be recognized by all humanity and by God.

We have many examples back in Korea, in the early days of our movement, of some people who considered themselves wise and thought it would be wise for them to leave this movement, for some time at least, because they found it was so difficult for them to go this way. They thought they would leave the movement and would come back when we have paved the way and at the end they would be saved. They hated to go through all the persecution and hardships, but after awhile they found that our movement was successful. They didn't imagine that our movement would be so successful in such a short amount of time. However, during that time, the people whom they thought were foolish in going on, following the way, were successful and became president of such and such an association, president or boss of a factory, the director of a church organization, etc., and were even welcomed and received with hospitality by dignitaries. The ones who left became more and more ashamed to come back. Even their parents, their relatives would be scornful of them, pointing out those successful people and would tell them: "Look, they are so successful in that movement! What kind of a man are you? " It's an evil thing to betray the movement if it is in difficulty. So, they would be accused of that. That's not the problem of other people, but the problem of you, yourselves. What will become of us ten years from now is going to be beyond your imagination....

With that in mind you have to decide, and when you decide you must be resolved to go this way at the cost of your lives, at the cost of everything. When you have decided that you are going toward this goal you must plan how to go. Do you want to make a roundabout way, once or twice in the course? You will be doing that many times, in your head at least. Will you do that at all? How can I trust you? Are you sure I can trust you? [YES!] Once you have decided to go through this way, you must set your goal at the same point and then you must plan how to go. How are you going to go the way? Are you going to vacillate or turn away? Then after awhile you feel that you must come back. In that way are you going to make a roundabout path? You will be doing that at least in your mind. Are you sure you are not that way? Some of you answered yes! I can trust only a few people out of you. Even in your mind you will never make that roundabout thing. Are you sure? [YES!]

On the mobile team you must know that you must earn your own livelihood. There is no financial support from Headquarters. Is there any army in the world like that? Self-supporting in the battlefield? We are the first examples of such kind and perhaps in the future I will command the mobile teams to raise money and to send some portion of the money back to Headquarters. In that case are you going to be discouraged and complain? We are in such an armed service where the soldiers have to raise money and send a portion of that to the rear-line. Is there an army like that anywhere in the world? You are going to be the first example of such an army, and we will more than win the whole war.

Even in the Communistic army they are financially supported. They are given food, clothing, arms -- but I am going to use you, trying to get money out of you. Are you ready to follow that kind of a leader? You must be crazy people. I am sure you know that, if I am going to do that at all, I am not going to do that for my own sake. I have everything with me to support myself. I have earned quite a sum of money on which I can live all through my life. Some 13 million dollars I have earned. With that, I can lead a well-to-do life. That money I have deposited in the bank, but I have bought land for you to use in the future for international training centers to be built and I have established factories to make more money for the movement. When I am telling you to make your own livelihood and even send back some of the money to Headquarters, I am not doing that for my sake, you well know that I am going to do that for the sake of saving the world. Even dictators like Hitler, when he utilized the people, he had to financially support them. Even Stalin had to financially support the people when he used them. But here I am, as the leader of this group, and I am going to use you by being paid! In that case I am the only example of that in the whole world in all human history. Am I not? Still, do you want to follow me? [YES!]

Frankly speaking, you are going to be faced with difficulty and hardships -- and if you are not willing to go this way, you can wrap up your belongings and go away. Do you still want to follow me? [YES] That is what you, yourselves, have said. Do you mean what you said? Then how are you going to go the way, slowly or at full speed? [FULL SPEED] Are you ready to be defeated or to win? [WIN!] Even among yourselves there will be competition. While other members on the mobile team will want to sleep eight hours, how many hours are you ready to sleep? Seven hours? Five hours? When I ask you seven hours, six hours, you say, "Yes!" Five hours, "Maybe!" Four hours, "Well There may be one who can go with three hours' sleep. You will be defeated by him and you will try to win over him by sleeping only two hours and 59 minutes, and you will be the victor over the other person.

Suppose you are hungry and feel like eating, but at the moment someone calls you before you have your breakfast. Who will win? Those who will dash out to the battlefield without having a meal, or those who will stay there to have breakfast? Your commander may have to tell you not to eat sitting at the table, but to eat standing with just a plate in your hand and just stuff it into your mouth in an instant. What would you do? That team will win over the others. Some of you may complain and call your commander names, saying: "What a man!" He has no appetite to sleep, he has no appetite for anything good, and he commands us to do bitter things. How can I stand him? His eyes must be different from others. He doesn't have a wink of sleep all through the night; his stomach must be made of iron, which doesn't shrink back when he is hungry." The more your commander is bitter toward you, the better he is -- by training you in this way, he will have your team win over others. Then your eyes will be distracted looking at other teams, and you would want to belong to other teams where they have milder and sweeter commanders. Would you want to do that? Where are you going? The conclusion is to belong to the mobile team where the commander is such a harsh man as to drive you that way!

Never at all dream of living easy and satisfied on the teams. For at least several years you must be ready to clad yourself in rags and feed yourself with humble food and drive yourself out to the battlefield, to fight hard. You will have no time to make up your face, no rouge, no manicure, and you will be told that you got thinner, your skin lost its sheen. Will that be all right? It is your custom to take a bath everyday, but on the mobile team you may not be able to have frequent baths. In that case, like Master did in the prison, you have to wet your towel, wring it and wipe yourself. In the jail there was no water to wet his towel, but there was a cupful of water given to him -- he was also thirsty to drink it, but the jailer had to take away the cup right after he had drunk it, so he had to drink it and leave some in the cup and with the mouthful of water, he would wet the towel. What you are going to go through is far better than what he had to go through in the prison. Then will you be all right without having a frequent bath? Well, don't you see the tigers living in the deep mountainside? They are so beautiful all the time. Do they take baths every day? They don't know; of such a thing as a bath, but they remain beautiful. Once they appear with a roar resounding throughout the mountains the other animals will shrink back trembling before them. The young tigers, when they grow, will become regular tigers. In following me, I want you to resemble me. I want you to go through what I have gone through. Do you think you have to rest, sleep on a bed? [NO!] You must sleep on the hard cement floor, sometimes. That's too luxurious maybe for you -- you must sleep in the jostling van. You are from well-to-do families and you have many places to go, you are welcomed and received by everyone else, but in this group you have to go through this bitterness. But, still, do you like that? Are you saying what you mean? [YES!]

On the first of February there will come strangers from many mobile teams to choose some out of you and take you back to their mobile teams. You will be sent to the mobile teams where strangers will have command over you. Living together, doing things together, if you try to find fault with each other, there will be many such things. There will be instructions going out and reports coming in to the Headquarters and we will know clearly how you are doing and in what manner you are performing there. You may be quarreling with each other on the mobile team -- and the very man you fought against, who knows, may be your spouse in the future. The one you most disliked may have to become your spouse. In matchmaking, my plan is to put people of two extreme ends together. Bear this in mind, if you find one whom you feel like hating most -- think that, in the future, that very person is going to be your spouse. That's possible, I am serious. Master is a strange person, how can that happen? Still he has that kind of plan in mind. Are you still ready to go in this way? [YES!]

Instead of "Where are we going?" now our subject is "There, we are ready to go." Are you determined to do that? There can be many ways in treading on the road. You can jump, you can dash forward, you may be going in a crippled way, but still you want to go. Even though you may have to tumble or go upside down or jump on one foot, you can go. Are you sure of that? Then where to go is no problem -- it's solved. We will go this way. You promised me. Can I trust you?

After having sent you out on different mobile teams, do you want me to visit your teams on the front-line? On that day you may expect me to buy you something to eat because you are hungry, buy you something to put on because you are in rags. Would you expect me to do that? [NO!] Would you want me to drive you even harder there? Don't ever expect me to do anything sweet to you on the front-line when I meet you. Still, would you want me there? It's easy to answer. Now, I think I can trust you. But somewhere in the future if you feel like resting or if your mind vacillates like this, you must think of today and I told you that I have gone through all those things myself, so you don't have to worry about that. It's already been tested. I have paved the way for you. On your part you have just to obey me and you will win the goal. I have thought of all those things. I have tested all those things and I have found that this is the only way for any human being to go. That's what I have done so far. So, if you do things in obedience to me, you are sure to win the goal. Once you vacillate, that will harm not only yourself but other people, too. I have many such experiences. Not that I have vacillated, but if I had thought and planned a slightly wrong way, then in order for me to restore it, it would take hours of strenuous prayer, and days and weeks and months of hard struggle to restore that. Whatever a situation you may have to go through in the future, take it as a challenge and interpret it in this way. You may be repaying the debt which your ancestors have made. You may have to go through indemnity in order that more grace be given in the future. You may be going through indemnity for the sake of other people. What you have gone through will be yours to be saved for your future descendants to use. It will be inherited by your future descendants. I hope my talk today will be helpful in making your decision.

The lectures on the Divine Principle will end either today or tomorrow morning, and you will have a test. On the second of February, Master and his party are going to leave for San Francisco, where he has many things to do, and then right after his departure, the next day your national leaders will leave for your own nations. On the first, we will send you out on the mobile teams. I hope you are grown-up enough in the Divine Principle to be separated from your parents, your leaders, and from now on you are going to be one with your commanders and your brothers and sisters on the mobile team. And I hope that you will carry out your mission on the mobile teams in perfect harmony with the members there.

Since I am here with you, training you, encouraging you with everything, back in Korea and in so many other nations, our members are focusing their attention on what you are doing and praying for your activities on the mobile teams, so you are of the greatest concern to those people, so please remember that and be good examples on the mobile teams. That will, reversely, stimulate those people and encourage them to know that you are doing international, worldwide work. While you are on the battlefield, in the front-line, I have equally many things, important things to be settled and done by myself on the rear-line, as the Chief Commander. So, you must remember that I am working as hard as you are. After the victory is won, we will tell our stories in happiness and with good memories, and after you have won a certain victory, you can be shifted, and with all those things in mind, I want you to fight really hard because I am fighting even harder in the rear-line.

Our Desire

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
January 23, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

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Because of the Human Fall, we have not seen God in the truest sense. We have not had the true God, in a way. And we have not been living with the true God. If we, as mankind, could have been one with God, with the true God as our Father, abiding with Him, living with Him in the greatest love, how happy we would have been! And from God's part, how happy He would have been to live with His true children. He, being the highest in every sense, could have been overjoyed with untold happiness! He would have lived with us in the greatest love. Have you ever stopped to imagine how hilariously He would have danced and smiled and been overjoyed to see us and to live with us? In what way would He have danced with us? It is our great remorse not to have been able to live with such a Father, from whom every joy starts, every happiness, every dancing, everything good and happy starts. Everything good would have started from God. But we have never seen, never experienced such a sensation to the fullest degree.

We see and experience the love of parents over us. Our parents kiss us on the cheek, embrace us and console us in times of sadness. We have experienced all these but not to the full extent and not in the truest sense, because every sensation can come only from God to the fullest degree. What we have experienced is not from God, but from Satan. Have you ever stopped to think who was it that made the first smile in the whole world, the first laughter in the whole world? Of course, there were Adam and Eve, who could have been joyful if it weren't for the Fall, but who was the first one to be overjoyed at the time of the Human Fall? Satan. Not God. The smile of Satan, the laughter of Satan was a horrible one -- when he gained the sovereignty of man, discarding God. And he was overjoyed after taking the sovereignty from God with all mankind being under him, with smiles, laughter, joy and dancing about. Satan was happy! Something appalling. Something irresistibly hateful. You must remember that. After we fell, what we have been acting in accordance with Satan. Our forefathers worked, did things in such a way that they would please Satan more than they would God. Our heritage, which you have taken lightly, has also been made for Satan, to please Satan.

If you really felt that, if you seriously considered that horrible thing, you would have been choked by it and you would have wanted to get rid of this world, to fly to another world, like the moon. Do we have an inch of land that we can claim as ours, where we can really be hilarious, joyful and happy? And to think of that. We don't have such a land. We even fell almost choked in the darkness, under Satan. We would want to migrate to somewhere else from this earth plane, but we have to restore it to its original position. If we leave the world as it is, we might as well hope that God will not come and abide in this world with us. You would feel like stopping Him from coming to this dark world. If you were really the children of God, you would have felt that, because everything was the other way around.

God, on His part, wanted to come and abide with us, helping us, saving us, but these dirty men, these appalling men of sin, these children of disobedience, did not want God to come and help us, to come and love us and live with us. How sad God's heart was! If there was a single man, who in the place of all mankind, would sacrifice himself to save the world, to erase the sin of those people, desiring to be victimized for the sake of God, would God be pleased with him or not? In that case, would He have put him out or said to him, "You are one of them, you are a stained, sinful man, I don't like to see you, I don't want you to help me in any way?" Would He have said a thing like that? As lofty and absolutely pure as God may be, He needs someone to help Him in His restoring the world, so God would be overjoyed at having found that kind of man and He would have asked that man to do things for Him in restoring the world. But this has been very difficult. What do you think about that?

If that man would say to God, "I've sacrificed myself for your cause, you must recognize me," insisting that God would recognize him, how would God feel? Man is so greedy; we want to have things more than we paid for. We want to be repaid more than what we have paid. Would you want less than what you paid for? But if that person of central mission was thinking that way, saying those things to God, if I were God, I would tell him, "Oh, how you have proven that you are also of the Satanic tribe. Well, you are disgusting. I don't want to use you. I don't want to have you." God must have felt that way toward such people. At the beginning of his mission, Jesus too, was this way and that, wavering. You must know that. But at last, he was on God's side. Don't you remember, when he prayed: "If it be possible, if it be possible, let this bitter cup pass from me; but not as I will but as Thou Will." If Jesus had not included in his prayer: "not as I will but as Thou will," he would have been kicked away by God. God would have thrown him away. That is the secret of being God's son. It is to be utterly obedient to God's will. Only in this way can you make God happy.

In the world of sin, there is only one road for God to go -- that's the road of sacrifice, made by the man of sin, getting rid of whatever he has in order to receive God. How do you feel after hearing that? Sad, serious? You are here ready to receive God, but God wants you to sacrifice yourself even before being told to by God. That's what God would want you to do because He wants you to be better than the Satanic children; because of that His heart is sad. Unless you are ready to sacrifice yourself before you are told to do it, God cannot come to you. If you do it, God will be proud of you and will say to Satan: "Look at my children. Yours are not willing to do things before being told, but my children are ready to do anything before they are told to." He could be proud of His own children. Unless we do that, there is no other way for us to restore God's authority and dignity since we are His children.

You must say a hopeful prayer, saying to God: "Oh, Father, I don't want to be a foolish child, to be unwise. I want to be wise enough to know your heart. I'm here ready to sacrifice myself, even before you tell me to do it, so why don't you come? Abide with me, and help me." In that prayer, God will be pleased and be proud of you before Satan. And you can even say this: "I will be responsible to restore this world of sin and I can do it, believe me, you don't have to come and help me. I don't want you to come to this dirty world to help me. You stay there and watch me." You can even console God's heart in that kind of prayer. Then, how would God feel? He would tell you: "I'm coming. I have to come and help you. Even if you would stop me from coming, I must be with you. I want to be with you, right in the midst of darkness." He would say that to you. Then, when you want to go a certain way, ready to fight your way through, you will suddenly find that God is already there, ahead of you, having prepared everything and paved the way for you. Since God is the God of love, of parental love, if you were God, wouldn't you do the same? Wouldn't you pave the way ahead of your children? When you do that, you become the greatest of His sons, since you moved your Parent's heart, mobilized Him to help you while you didn't even want Him to come. You would be a son of His, a great son of the absolute God. You would have restored His dignity and God would be proud of you. He would tell Satan in a loud voice, "Have you ever had such a great son of yours? Has any one of your sons ever done things in advance for you, even before being told to do them?" From that point God will be happy, with broad daylight smiles, while Satan will be shrinking back, not daring to lift his face up to God, and with tearful eyes he will surrender.

I have thought and thought, and finally found out that this is the only way for the sons of filial piety to please God. You will be grateful for doing that, for having God come to earth because of you, for making Him happy, proud of you, warm, and more proud than Satan over his Satanic children. You will be proud of each other and be satisfied with yourselves.

God, in the beginning, had lost His children with whom He could perform the action of give and take in hilarious joy. Satan got hold of His children and what the people did after that only increased Satan's joy and happiness. Everything was done in Satanic terms. Now, to have at least one of his sons restored in a way to please God for the first time, with restored lineage, how joyful, how proud God would be with him! In the beginning, God wanted Adam to please Him, to return joy to Him. He set every hope in His son, Adam, but He lost His son. Now, He has been trying to locate the Second Adam. If He finds him in this world, that one single man in that position, how pleased would He be? He would want to embrace that man and even bow down before that man because He is overjoyed. That person would be of even greater value than the First Adam, because after the loss of the First Adam, God's heart had been so grievous, and now after so many years of man's sinful history, He has located this person. You can well imagine that finding His lost child would bring Him tremendous joy, and the child he found would be even more precious than the First Adam whom He created in the beginning. He would be proud of the son He gained or found again. He would walk around with pride, shutting out Satan.

Due to the Human Fall, the history of happiness would start from that very person, not from the original Adam. God would say to Satan: "Satan, even though man fell long, ago, I have now found this child of mine and I'm overjoyed with this son of mine." He would be more proud and more joyous than He would have been with the First Adam. God would have forgiven him, thankful that He let the man come to Him, In that case, if that man would want God to forgive Satan and save the last man in the Satanic world, it would be easy to say yes. Wouldn't that be true? Therefore, we Unification Church members can ask God to forgive the last one in the Satanic world. By our doing this, we can ask God to do that too. Then, what must be our desire? To become that kind of man. Whom would you like to follow? Whom would you like to resemble?

He always has the attitude not to wait for God's command. He always feels busy, always impatient to do things, always with tense nerves. If you have that attitude, you don't have to pray to God. What you are thinking and doing is more than prayer and you are in a position to have realized the prayer. Is that possible or impossible in the world of heart? You must even think what to do after death. You must have all those plans before you. After you have finished here, when you go to the next world, if you tell God that you would not go to Heaven but would stay in Hell, well, God would bring Heaven down to you for you to live in, wouldn't he? Then, if you would insist on His letting you live in the lowest society, He would smilingly say to you: "Son, you are a most smart boy." In that case, even though you had not been obedient to God, He would still be proud of you and you are going to be an example of utter goodness. God will leave you alone without telling you what to do! He will tell one of you: "You don't have to go out to society. When did I tell you to go out and witness to the people, why don't you stay here?" And if you would object to Him, fight against Him and win over Him and go out to society, would He punish you? The same is true for God. God, in trying to save the whole of mankind, would want to have you with this attitude, would want you to desire to be this type of Christian.

Then, what must our desire be? Our desire is to become the children of God, doing things in His place, before His order. Our desire is to become historical children or children which the sinful history of mankind has never seen before. Would God want you to laugh and be happy before He made you happy or the other way around? If you have the experience of having raised children, you know this well. Suppose Father and Mother quarrel with each other, never laughing or smiling, in a terrible mood, and your children, innocent ones, would come before you, smile, laugh and dance about trying to make you laugh, wouldn't you laugh? You may want to stay in a bad mood, angry, but when you glance at your children, trying to make you laugh, you will burst into laughter. Which is better? To have your children angry when you are trying to soothe their hearts, or when you are with burden? In agony, when you are sad, would you like to have your children make you laugh? Would you like to have children like that? Our desire is to become that sort of child. In order to be that way, first you must be doing things before you are ordered to. Second, you must be so aggressive that you want to do things by yourself without the help of your Father. You will tell Father: "Please stay there, don't interfere with me, I will be responsible. I will do my part. Wait until I can return this to you. I'm doing this for your sake and for the sake of my brothers and sisters whom you love dearly." The third thing is, as I just said: you must desire to do things for the sake of your brothers and sisters. Yes, want to do things for the sake of the brothers and sisters all over the world because they are equally loved by God. In that case, you are restored children of His and God loves you more than He does the other children. And He would praise you. He would like to give you anything and He would be proud of you. And in that case, when you are given praise and everything good from Him, then there's a conversation going on between God and you. You would affirm it: "Father, now that you have given all this happiness and these good blessings to me, they are mine, aren't they?" He would tell you, "of course they are yours." "Then, I can do anything with what you've given me, can't I?" You can do anything with them and you would want to give it all to other brothers and sisters without having even a particle of it. Would God be displeased with you? Sometimes when you give something to someone more than to others, you wouldn't like that person to give all those precious things away to others without having even a small particle of it, but God would be pleased.

How would God feel? Many people are greedy and not giving; many have received and enjoyed their position -- while the understanding, giving and loving person, after giving out all he has, becomes empty-handed. How would God feel toward such a person? God, finding that you have given out all those things, with empty hands, will be satisfied with you, surprised with you. He will say to you: "You are greater than God Himself. I would never have believed it." Then this omnipotent God would create more things for you, He would have more things in store and He would give more and more. So, there's nothing greater than to give out all things to others. You will possess what they have themselves as well and this is the thing which will make you greater than other people. You will be the victor, not only over those men but over everyone and over God, winning His heart.

God, being invisible, cannot quite carry out things as He would want to, in a sense. He is always ready to give out all things to the people, but they are not ready to receive those things from God. In that case, you are being used as the instrument. Through you He is giving out things to mankind; through you He is working to make the world good; without you, He cannot do anything, so you are in a way a mediator between God and man, and without you we don't know people at all and God cannot be interrelated with people. So you are greater than those too, in a way. Has there been any man in the whole world who was kicked out while doing something for the sake of other people, at the cost of sacrifice on his part? So, that is the next objective, that is, how to do things in order to be loved by man, loved by God. I have thought and thought and finally found out that this is the clue and this must be our desire. This is the mainstream of unified thought. In the world, they won't think highly of our ideology. But on the side of God we are recognized by Him. With this kind of attitude, with the desire to do things for the sake of mankind, would God be pleased with us or not?

So, our conclusion is that our desire must be, first, to become God's child whom God has never seen before. To become that kind of a son or daughter, you must want to do things in advance, without being told. In doing righteous things, you must be doing those in advance. You must do better things than God, because God cannot work without you: "Let everything I have received belong to my brothers!" You must give out the things that you have received from God. If you do this, you will be sons and daughters of filial piety to God and while He lost His love, lost His happiness, lost His peace and everything because of the Human Fall, you want to return the absolute happiness, love, ideal, everything back to God. You want to give it back to God. Through being such children, with God working on earth, having made this world an ideal one, and the other world too, we can establish the true Garden of Eden. Our desire is to become such children of God. If we are that kind of people, we can draw all the people of the whole world to us. We can even draw God down to this level, to live with us. We will do greater things than any other human being has done on this earth. That is our desire. So, we are not lying when we say we are resolved to establish the Kingdom of God on this very earth. That is our desire!

Our Attitude

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
January 22, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

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From these days of talks you now know how important it is to have a transition of blood lineage. Before God sent the Messiah to earth, He had prepared for 4,000 years a nation to work with. We know that, through his death on the Cross, Jesus paved the way to Paradise only. Heaven was left empty. (Heaven is the place where man, after having lived a life in the true love of God, can go after physical death -- after having lived in a wholesome position under the number "four," under the True Parents, as children centered on God.) Because of the human Fall there had been no one who had really entered the Kingdom of God. Jesus' desire was to restore men to be entitled to that. Then, what was Jesus' mission -- the most important part of his mission? It was to locate his bride.

God's purpose was to find a man, Adam -- and the Messiah's purpose was to find his bride. It is according to the Principle of Creation that Eve was created out of Adam. Adam was created by God. So, God's purpose was to locate Adam, and Adam's purpose was to locate Eve. When you think of God, Adam and Eve -- or God, Messiah and bride -- the Messiah is in the middle, the second position. In any period in the providence of God, the second one is always the most important. Without the second one being entirely one with God, nothing can be realized. The second one cannot do anything without the third being one with him. In Adam's family there was Abel, but without Abel's being able to become one with Cain, he cannot do anything. So, number "two" must restore or [re-] create number "three." By going through this formula, the Providence of Restoration is being developed. The spiritual world is in Cain's position, while the earthly world is in Abel's position.

Centered on God's Kingdom, Democracy is in the position of Abel, while Communism is in the position of Cain. The Democratic peoples have the responsibility of recreating or restoring the Communist world, uniting it with Democracy. In order for that to be completed, the Messiah must come into the Democratic world and work out his projects in such a way that he will have the Democratic world absorb the Communist world -- centered on himself. In view of this providence of God, the Democratic world now is not quite carrying out its mission, so you must realize that our mission is very important -- because we represent the Democratic world. Centered on any nation, we have the ruler. Centered on the ruler there are two parties: the ruling party and the opposition. The ruling party is in the position of Abel, while the other is in the position of Cain. Those two must not fight for the sake of fighting, but must agree with each other -- the ruling party being able to absorb the other. In that case, in order for the ruling party to be in Abel's position, it must be so qualified as to give good policies to the people and to do things for the sake of the people and not for the sake of its own authority. The ruling party, without being entirely sacrificial and influential toward people, cannot absorb the opposing party. On the other hand, from the viewpoint of the opposition party, unless it finds something better and something forceful and persuasive in the ruling party's policy, it cannot agree with it. This means the ruling party must exercise a re-creative influence on the opposition party. It is true with any community or group. In school, you have your teacher and you respect him, depending upon how much he is giving to you and how influential he is over you. In other words, whether or not he is respected depends upon how much he is influencing you toward the good. Between friends, too, the same applies. When you respect or love your friend, that means that friend is influencing you for your own good. Then, you want to think highly of him. The one who is respected by you is in the second position, between God and yourself. The man in that position, though it may be vague, has something as a norm above him, either God or his ideology. Then, by being united into one with that alone, he can now give good influence to other people and absorb other people.

Do you understand that much? In other words, unless the norm or the law on the vertical line is set or fixed, the norm on the horizontal level cannot be decided. On the vertical line, God, man and the whole Creation must be one with one another. On the vertical line, by going through those three points you have three stages, set there. However lofty or high God may be, without His connecting man and the whole universe in oneness, He cannot exercise His power.

Man is different from animals, which crawl. We stand upright, with three parts to our body: head, abdomen and legs. In your head, too, there are three sections. The important organs within our body are the lungs, heart and stomach. Your arm is also divided into three parts. Your hand, too, has three parts; your leg, your finger, everything. Your flesh, too -- you have skin, flesh and skeleton (bone). Your eyeball has three sections. Your nose, and two nostrils make one whole; two lips and tongue make one. All those have something to do with the number three. We have eyes, and since they are located above anything else, they signify God. Your nose signifies Adam and Eve: man. Your mouth signifies things of Creation. Your nose is most protruding. When you stand upright it is ahead of you. So, in the created world, man is always ahead of others. When a baby is formed in the mother's womb, its eyes come first. Motion starts there with your eyeballs rolling. You find your neck moving in many directions, but what makes that possible? Your eyes. The action has something to do with the movement of your eyes. It means that the whole world is moving or rolling because of the command of God. All parts put together make yourself, but all look entirely different. Your ears signify four directions. The number seven is the number of completion or perfection. In your head you find the number seven (openings or holes). Seven apertures must meet at one point. If you do this -- trying to breathe to the full, you feel your breath coming to every aperture. There is unity there. Seemingly, they have no connection with each other, but in fact, they do. That's what makes our head the most important. That's why we call man the contracted form of the universe or microcosm.

God has the first quality in mind inherently. Man is a plus being and a minus being. Creations other than man also are plus beings and minus beings. I said your eyes symbolize God; your nose symbolizes man; and your mouth symbolizes all things. Those two, God and man, join here and come down here, but your mouth is a straight, horizontal line. That means it is the basic, fundamental thing. Centering on man, the vertical line comes onto the horizontal line. When your mouth is tightly shut, it makes a horizontal line; if you draw a vertical line downward, they make a cross. When you speak, your words come through your mouth; it means that anything significant or anything that has sense must go through the cross. You have two eyes, signifying the two essentialities of God; two nostrils signifying the opposite sexes of man; two lips to your mouth signifying plus and minus on the horizontal line. You have three stages, but centering on God, if you divide these two (plus and minus, male and female) they will form a foundation of four positions. This is square, but if put sideways it will combine to stand on the horizontal line. If you pull up and down, narrowing this part, it will draw a vertical line. All will come either on vertical line or horizontal line depending on what you do. This signifies that a pulling power and pushing power are controlling the world. If that's constantly done at full speed, it will circle around, revolve around, causing harmony in the world. Between male and female is the action of give and take; and if that is done in a harmonious way, there is no you and I but the whole thing will come about in beautiful harmony. Everything taking place in the whole universe acts like that or revolves in such a form that there will be beautiful harmony. It is from the give and take being done in a wholesome way. So, we can reach the conclusion that nothing can exist without going through that stage -- going through the action of give and take. Isn't that true?

The whole universe is the place where that kind of action takes place everywhere and those small units of things will do the same among each other. There is motion everywhere. You want to hold your hands still and extended like this, but after awhile you will find they are shivering like this. All living things have motion. Motion is always circular, in a circular form. When the wind blows you will find it does not do so in a straight line but with a waving motion. Science says that if there is high atmospheric pressure and low pressure, it will dash to this place, not in a straight line but in a wavy line. Then, why does it do that, if it makes the distance longer? The wind is sometimes strong and does not come in this way, straight; but there is a rhythm too. When you run, too, you want to run straight forward, but there is some circular action there. You bound forward and create circular movement.

We have the foundation of four positions, but it doesn't remain square. When they have give and take between each other there always comes a circular motion between every element. As I have said before, there is God above us, man in between, and things below us. So man, the being in the second position, is the most important. Man puts both in action. On our head we find the nose protruding as a point. And by seeing the nose you can see if a man is handsome or not. The nose is the first thing to define your beauty. When you look at the landscape, beauty is decided by its mountains, which draw curving lines. The whole world is a mystery, indeed, if you closely examine it, you will find many such interesting things. In the Divine Principle, is contained the source of science, too. What must be the force that can pull it sideways so that God can come down to this point.

What must be the power of horizontal give and take? What causes horizontal give and take? If you pull on the vertical level, everything goes to the vertical line. What force causes that? Love, as a magnet. Love is something that, even though you may pull it on and on, it will not be cut or severed. Say there are two lovers. One is in the extreme east and one in the far west. But is the bond of love cut with distance in between? No. When true lovers embrace each other, would they want to be pushed by forces to come closer and closer into one? Would they want to have that done? Love is something which is pleased either when they are pulled apart, or when they are pushed closer. Love is the subjective power -- power in the plus -- the most important power, the strongest power. In Christianity we advocate God's love in human society.

Suppose there is a spinning top -- in the form of the foundation of four positions. The force comes to the center but how does it look? Does it look narrower or wider? It spins very rapidly. Some say it is narrow this way and some that way. Which is right? So, the more rapidly it spins, the higher it becomes. When it slows down, it becomes like this. The more rapidly it spins, does it stand upright or tend to fall down? It becomes straight up and higher and higher. When it slows down, it becomes wide sideways and vacillates and waivers, and is about to collapse. God created the theory. Would God have wanted man to spin as fast as possible centered on love or not? What is the power causing them to spin around so rapidly? What is the force there? Love. Nothing but love can make that. If you love another person, would you like to hold him like this, or to spin around? If those two are put together, they want to spin very rapidly, they must stick to each other as close as possible. Unless you do that, both of you cannot be set in motion very rapidly. In love, the action of love, the revolving action of love will grow taller and higher to reach God. Everything we do in actuality has some symbolism. When the two revolve around unwillingly, the motion will come into a disharmonious form and is apt to collapse, but when they are really in love with each other and hold each other tightly and revolve around, then no force can make them collapse. In everything, in doing anything -- in your work, too -- would you have it done quickly or slowly? If you do it rapidly, trying to reach the goal, it is something to grow fast and reach the goal. That principle applies to everything. With the object and the cause, every pair of things forms four positions, too: the object of your sight, the two eyes, and the nerve controlling the eyes in back -- God. With your object there and the cause in the back, every part of you, every member, forms four positions. When you want to hold a thing, do you find it stronger if your hold it with two hands or with one hand? When you walk, too, four elements are in motion. So, love is something that causes that motion and has the four positions spinning around so fast that they reach God. Would you like to have love among you, would you like to love each other or not? If you love each other, you will grow taller, higher, to reach God sooner; and if you are near God, the blessing from Him is apt to be there. Without love among you, you will be scattered with distance and gaps between you. The motion will slow down and you are apt to collapse. Are you ready to love each other? [YES!] If you love each other, both will prosper, but if you hate each other you will not only be separated, but you will be ruined -- collapse. With a line omitted here, can it be a sound, solid form of four positions? It would collapse -- not like a line. The essential thing we need in order to form the foundation of four positions is God, father, mother and children.

As I said before, there is a plus element and minus element in God. With children, here too, you have male and female children. Parents -- one is male while the other is female. From the fact that children have plus and minus elements in themselves, we have male and female children; and parents are male and female. From this together and from God being the cause, then there must be plus and minus elements in Him. To draw a square, there must be three stages. When you put it this way on the vertical line 1, 2, 3, or when you put it this way 1, 2, 3. With all those put together on the axis, you will find the nuclear point. When this one is placed here and this one there, power comes to the central point on the axis both in circular motion and spherical motion; power comes to the nuclear point. Three points, either the number three or the number four, when they spin around, form either circular or a spherical form. When they count every element, there is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Including the central point, the number seven will make everything perfect -- in perfect motion. So, the number seven is the number of perfection. There are three stages: world of children, world of parents and world of God. The first one being the generation [formation], second one the growth, and perfection stage third. In between, we find three stages; but the levels, when you count, come to four, and all together seven. Those four divided into three (subdivided into three), will make 12. Every number appearing in the Bible comes from that foundation of four positions -- three stages. This being the basic thing of the whole universe, you must remember that the foundation of four positions is most important.

Suppose there is a very loving couple and one partner dies, why is the other so sad? Because he or she lost the object of love. In other words, since the perfection of creation is the perfection of the foundation of four positions ... in that case she has lost the foundation of four positions by losing one element. With one of those four omitted, can the rest of the three form the four positions? Suppose there is a couple and they don't have children, why are they sad? Since they love each other, why are they sad? They are sad because without having their children, they cannot form the foundation of four positions. When you are married to one another, would you want to have boys or girls in your family? Which? If a couple has boys alone and another couple has girls alone, then the boys and girls can marry each other. What makes you sad? Would you still want to have both boys and girls in your home? Why? It is in order to perfect your foundation of four positions. Every element of the fall must have plus and minus quality in itself. Without your boy here at least, the line there will be missing. It will collapse. Without one of the lines of the square it will be incomplete. If the man here is still single, he can still play around because he has hope of having a wife and children in the future. In that case he has hope; but once he is married and loses his wife, then he is sad. There had been the foundation of four positions formed and it collapsed because of loss.

God is always alone, so when you are alone and single and have hope at the start -- you want to become one with God. Because when you are single, you want to have someone to give back and forth to. So, God is alone. If you form the foundation of four positions, you are stable and you are sound, so the whole universe protects you. You feel pain in your heart when you lose your spouse. Because when you have a foundation of four positions formed, all the universe around you comes into cooperate with you, to protect you; but if you lose one element out of those four, you are being dispersed or severed, so all the power around you will join to pull you apart. You will not pass the law of four positions. You are expelled and dispersed in that case. You must always be thinking of how to form the four positions. When you sleep, you close your eyes, but you open your mouth -- you are more inclined to open your mouth. If you open you mouth, that resembles the form of four positions. When you are in a deep, sound sleep, your mouth is open. In deep sleep you want to be protected by God and God is always there protecting you. You must be thinking of how to form the foundation of four positions day and night. If you form four positions with anything -- that is good. Not only in the family, but there is a foundation of four positions everywhere. If you are married and as a couple center on your work, you have a foothold in the world by making your career a success. If that is God-centered, another foundation of four positions is made. A single man, when he works with co-workers, also forms a foundation of four positions. When you have your family and children then you want to raise them in the foundation of four positions by making your worldly career a success. Your first desire, therefore, is, concretely speaking, centered upon yourself. What is your first desire? It is to marry. Second? To have children. Then, with God above you on the vertical line, you have three points already. On the horizontal line, centered on yourself or your marriage, you want to broaden your horizontal base by making your career a success, by winning many people to cooperate with you, or be under you. So, with you always in the center you want to make many kinds of foundations of four positions. When husband and wife are entirely one, you have a vertical line -- but still the couple would want to have a broader base in their careers. Before that, they would want to have the restoration of relatives and tribe -- which comes on the horizontal line. In this way you want to have your whole nation, your government and your people. Centered on you, or you as a couple, you want to multiply your children to make the foundation of four positions on the family level. But if you broaden your family on the horizontal level, you then want to make restoration of clan and relatives on the vertical line. All the people of the world -- people of governments and heads of nations, will bring the restoration of the nation. So, centered on you, you want to restore yourself, your family, your clan or tribal level, and in this way in the rear and front you will have your people and your government -- you must have all those things in mind. To enumerate those things from the broader scale and narrowing it down, in terms of the restoration, you think of the whole nation and in it is included your clan, your family, your spouse and yourself. God is there, you and I and children; and when it broadens, there is your clan on the horizontal level and your nation in another direction. So, that is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, with your family in the core. It will consist of eight points. So, number eight will be the restarting point after you have broadened the scope of having gone beyond the level of family and having made your career. The formation is something like this (drawing on board). Then, what should be our attitude? Our attitude in a word should be to make the ideal of creation a reality. In doing that, we must start from the point of laying the foundation of four positions. And the core of that is man. Man, in making the foundation, must perform the action of give and take between mates and then multiplication comes about; and all those things must be centered on God. When we put all those elements on the vertical line, here is myself, my family, my clan, my nation -- three stages or number lines. So, your attitude and your concept must always be that you have not only yourself in the core, but you, your family, your clan and nation. You must be able to set up at least that much of a foundation for yourself.

Then, what must have been Jesus' attitude? He wanted to form the foundation of four positions on every level. Centered on the individual to God above, mind and body, and what you are going to do (your purpose), you will form four positions; and so you want to form your family, clan and nation. Reversely, when God had prepared the nation of the Israelites for Himself and it collapsed, He had to prepare other people of Judaism, loving them and his nation together; and after that He had to form His clan stronger and tighter to Himself, and then with His family as the core and He, Himself, as the axis, could He have set all those things in motion centered on Himself? Vertically, on the historical level, Jacob was a victor on the individual level and then, later, forming his family and his tribe under him. Going down to Abraham, God wanted Moses to lay the foundation on the national level. Then going down, at the time of John the Baptist, He would have had Moses' foundation on the national level. But John had to lay the national level foundation himself. If Jesus could have started his mission with those bases made, he would have been welcomed by his family, his tribe, his nation, and he could have succeeded in carrying out his mission.

Up to the present moment, every nation of the world has wanted to make itself the leading nation of the world. One of the nations at least had to do that in such a way that it put God above, people in the rear, and the government on the horizontal level; and it must have the purpose of working for the salvation of the whole world. That would form the big foundation of four positions centered on God. But if it does not have God in the center, God above, it will have to face destruction and ruin. Then, what must be our attitude again? On the individual level we must always try to have God above us and have our mind and body united, and our acts will proceed from our mind and body. That is the person of perfected individuality. Then, that perfected individual must have his or her spouse. Then, the couple, put together in harmonious oneness, must have God above it. What man and woman must do is to grow in scope and make their family and tribe a harmonious one. They should want to influence them that much. Then, centered on themselves, they have their children, and more than that their clans and their neighbors' clans and nation around them. The purpose of an individual is to form a family where there is the foundation of four positions. Then, the subjective male person and the objective female and their children form number three, and with God added, the number four -- the foundation of four positions. The purpose of any individual is to increase by having a spouse and children to form the foundation of four positions. Then, what is the purpose of the family of people? They must want to have their relatives multiplied under the same ideology. And broadening the scope, they must want to influence and restore their whole nation with God above. Like multiplication -- that's the purpose of any family. What is the purpose of the tribe or clan? Its purpose is to restore the nation and then to restore the whole world. Do you understand? What is the purpose of the nation then? The purpose of the restored nation is to restore the whole world and the spirit world too, to return them to God.

You want always to connect the three levels of things. The purpose of any individual is to perfect himself and perfect his mind and body together; perfect himself and have his family. The purpose of the family is to restore the nation and the world. We want to connect three levels of things. The purpose of the individual is to restore himself and to restore his spouse with his spouse as object and to restore the family. The family purpose is to have its clan restored and with the clan as the object, to restore the nation. The purpose of the nation is to win or restore the world and the whole universe -- including the spirit world. The purpose of the individual is to make his mind and body into one, with his body in the objective position. Then the purpose is fulfilled if that forms a square; then they have formed the four positions. That's the perfection of the individual, family, the nation and the world. The perfection of the family comes in this way: the purpose of the individual is to restore the male and female. The purpose of the family is to have the husband and wife become one with each other and, with the multiplication of children, form the foundation of four positions at the family level. The purpose of the nation is to have the family and clan in the objective position put together to restore the nation. The purpose of the world is to have the restored nation and the world become one together with the world in the objective position, to restore the whole universe. Is that clear?

The foundation of four positions comes from all the above. In other words, the purpose of the individual is to form the family, the purpose of the family is to form the nation, the purpose of the nation is to restore the world and the purpose of the world is to restore the whole universe. This way we have a vertical relationship. You must know clearly that on every level the foundation of four positions is so important. You must have such an attitude as to try to form the foundation of four positions on each and every level. If you have formed that, the whole world, including God, will come to protect you.

On the individual level, when your mind and body are not in oneness with each other, the disharmony causes you pain. This way your flesh causes you pain. Where there is not harmony between the subject and object on any level, that means that there is disunity there, and that causes pain. If you cannot become one with your spouse, there is pain or agony on the family level. If you are not in perfect love with each other, the children cannot be perfect and then the foundation of four positions is not stable. Then you grieve. Family ethics starts right from here. A world of harmony starts from a harmonious family. Even though you may have a harmonious family, if it is not in good harmony with relatives, there is another level of pain on a wider level. If your clan is not in harmony with your nation, you are in agony on a wider level. If your nation is not in harmony with other nations, your agony is greater. Well, only after having won all levels of things will you be protected on all levels and you will have real peace and real happiness within you. There are seven or eight stages on which you must have perfection: individual, family, clan, tribe, national, world, cosmic and then God.

As in Korea, and other divided nations, the nation is divided into two tribes. By the two powers -- one in Eve's position and the other in Cain's position -- put together then we can reach the next level, the tribal level. So, without your being able to go through all those stages making every level a success for perfection, you cannot safely say that you have God. But because of the disharmony of our ancestors in Jesus' days, because of the Fall of the first human ancestors, all those things were nullified. Our mission is to restore those things by going through the reverse way. Do you know what I mean? Since it took even God 6,000 years to do this, He has not quite done that much, then how can you dream of carrying out that mission in your lifetime? You cannot start it all over again. God, by using all spiritual leaders and saints, has made a level of success.

And we are now in the stage of the worldwide level with Master here. And what successors were doing was to inherit what was laid by the predecessors and in that way come to Master. You are going to inherit what Master has already accomplished. First of all, you must become one with the central figure who has inherited all those things and accomplished his portion. By becoming one with him and with his family, with the hope of having him and his family do the work ahead of them, and by putting yourself into one with them, you are in the same position. You will inherit what they are doing and it will be your plus, too. It's something like this: if an insect gets hold of a fast-moving train, it will reach the goal at the same speed. In that case the insect would want to cling to the train, and in that case he is in the position of the perfect object to the train. In that case if both become one, the one in the objective position can acquire what the one in the subjective position has. If you, in your position, cling to Master and his family accomplish it. you will never accomplish it by yourself, but he will do it. On Master's part, he will cling to God and become one with Him and do everything in the way that God would want him to do, so in that way he will establish his family. So, if you cling to him and his family, you are doing the same thing as his family -- forming the foundation of four positions on the individual level. But in doing that you must become one with the person who has accomplished that much -- who has a perfected individuality. You want to become the perfect object to him; by becoming one with him, you will have perfected your individuality. By having your family become one with his family, your family will have been perfected and you must want to do the same on broader levels. In Jesus' time he wanted to do things on that level, but he could only carry that much out on the spiritual level. So, we are going to do what was left unaccomplished by Jesus. Suppose Master will command you to do certain things. You must receive his command as if you are not only receiving just a command from him, but from his family, his clan, his tribe and his restored nation -- you must take it as the command from his nation and the whole world and of God to you. You must have the attitude of putting that much value on what you are doing. You will possess the whole universe. When I order you to do a certain thing I'm not doing that from the individual level or for my sake as a man, but I am doing this for the sake of the clan, tribe, nation and world and in place of God. So, when you don't obey me, you will not have obeyed God; obeyed the demand of the world, the demand of the nation, the demand of the tribe, clan or family.

Heaven is the place where you go after having accomplished so many levels of things. So, even though you are at the threshold of Heaven, if you have not accomplished the foundation of four positions at those levels, you are not qualified for Heaven. Master has laid the foundation of four positions. When you try to resemble him or try to do what he has done, you will have to lay the foundation of four positions on the family level, tribal level, national level, cosmic level, and then you can reach God. If you do that on the horizontal level, the straight line will come connecting all those things to reach the goal. Is everything clear to you? If you join Master on this level and devote yourself entirely to him, you will have accomplished as much as he has done and if you are here, then you are covering this (looking at the board).

Now that you have the clear picture of what he has done and what he is going to do, you can even go ahead of him and go into the Communist world and restore it and wait for him there. You will, in that case, excel those persons who have fought on other levels. What makes the missionaries great? If a missionary is responsible for the restoration of a nation, he is in the subjective position to the whole population of the country; and then by his being the perfectly accomplished successful object, with Master as the subject, you will have everything. On the spiritual level and in the future on the physical level, too, those who could restore the nation will be more than the king to the nation -- but only after having restored the whole nation. At some point in the future when he will have restored the whole nation, he will be something like a king there -- both on the spiritual and physical levels. Our attitude in thinking, in saying things, and in acting out things must be that we must try at all costs to lay the foundation of four positions on each of those levels. If you make any of those a failure, when you have learned and clearly understood that that is your mission, then you will not be forgiven. That is because the law of the foundation of four positions is something like the law of the constitution. If you cannot carry out your mission, then you have violated the law. You have no standard of law. You must, by heart, understand and remember that the perfection of foundation of four positions is our goal on every level. That is the perfection of the ideal of creation. Up to the present, you have only a vague idea of the foundation of four positions. You must know clearly that without love, no laying of the foundation of four positions is possible. Then what is the means of realizing or laying the foundation of four positions? It is love. You must know that. What we must have is the God of love. If we think of those as two, God is the subject and love is the object -- God is the cause and love is the result. Do you understand?

With Godly love as the core, when you form the foundation of four positions, even though you look at the four directions, everywhere there will be love. In every day's direction you will find love and harmony and beauty and everything virtuous and good. My conclusion is that you must be thinking of how to lay the foundation of four positions. The foundation of four positions with Godly love in the core -- this is what you must remember. Even when you eat you must be thinking of how to form the foundation of four positions. I need my object in the love of God in order to perfect love. When you find the object of your desire and become one with that person, you can form the four positions. If I lay the foundation of four positions, I am qualified for Godly love from all directions. You will either have to have yourself as subject or yourself as object. So, when you are single, you look at Master as the subject and with you as the object there will be a foundation of four positions laid. In any formation of oneness between subject and object, if you want to revolve around at full speed, the higher and taller you grow, the sooner you can reach God. When you reach God, that means that you are in God and God is in you. God wants to come down to you. Love is the only way that will enable you to do this -- in the core of the foundation of four positions that must be our attitude. You are entitled to the Heavenly Kingdom. Then, there will be nothing for you to fear or nothing for you to be ashamed of! You will be proud people!

Change Of Blood Lineage (III)

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
January 21, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

Good morning. In going through the way of restoration by indemnity we do that in many ways but the final one is the transition of blood lineage. At the time of the human Fall there were four personages or beings related to one another: God, Adam, Eve and the Archangel. God did not cause any Fall, but those original trinities were shifted to another one because of the Fall, so actually four.

God created man in order to make him His abode, a shelter for God to live in. In other words, God was the internal being and man was the external being. When we say that God is Father and man is His son, His child, in other words: God is the subject and men are in the objective position; and still in another sense, God is in the position of Master and men are in the position of His subjects -- His people -- His servants -- a master-servant relationship. The human desire is to reach God or become like Him -- to become God Himself. God, being above us and ourselves being below Him, we are sort of in the relationship of master and servant, so, this man in the position of servant wants to go up, to reach God and be God -- to place himself in the position of God. If, in that case, God would deny that, there would arise a question, a problem. So, God had a pre-knowledge of man's desire -- this desire of man. He wanted to give man everything he wanted; so, He put man in the position of His outer self, while He was in the position of man's inner self.

Man, being the incarnation of God as Logos, if God would have abided in man, those two are on a parallel level. If you are in the position of a son, you would want to have all that your father has. If he is a loving father to you at all, he wouldn't refuse if you would want to have those things. Out of all the Creation in God's possession, the most valuable thing is the creativity of man. So, His son, man, would want God to give him the power of creativity. So, God gave man His creativity, and that is seen in the power of man's multiplication. When we have our own children, we experience the same joy that God had experienced at the creation of man. When all this is done, it means that God had given us everything in His possession. With all those things in mind, we can well claim, protest, that we are on the parallel line with God -- we are the same as God.

This is a sort of revolutionary phrase. No theologian and not a single Christian in the whole world has been able to give us this comment or this opinion. They always thought that God was up, far above them, and always holy, sacred and out of reach -- while man was far below Him, miserable and evil.

God, being in the father's position, would like us to love one another -- spouses and parents and children. If you are in the position of parents, would you like your children to love one another, love their spouses and love their children? Would you like to see that happen? For instance, if there was an enemy to that father but that enemy had a deep love for those children of his, the feeling of hostility toward that enemy would melt away. That could happen. So, love alone can eradicate hostility. No power, no violence can bring about forgiveness -- but love alone can do that. So, our ideal is to realize the ultimate love.

In the act of love, when we can love the individual, we are doing that on the level of the individual. But if you love a family, you are on the level of the family in performing the act of love. If you can love the whole nation, you are loving on the level of nation and when you can love the whole world, you are doing that on the level of the whole world. And if you love God, you will have loved all and everything and you will have gone beyond all the levels. In the greatest love, you have a free pass to go beyond any boundary -- like a passport. That's the secret. Isn't that true? That's why God, in fighting against Satan, would do that centered on love.

If anyone can love the person whom God would love, he can participate in the performance of love. In the Old Testament Age, when people had to offer sacrifices, God had to love what was on the right side alone. God would love the people on the right side and by doing that He would widen the scope until He reached the nationwide level -- where He chose the nation of the Israelites. The Israelites are in the position of the wild olives to be engrafted to the original one. These wild olives are under God. The other wild olives, those in the Satanic world, belong to Satan -- even though the people there are in the same position of wild olives. Their master is Satan while the master of the chosen nation of Israel is God.

Why are those two parties divided? If those two parties were still one like this, when God would want to cut those wild olive trees to be engrafted to the original, true olive, they would be afraid. So, God had already divided those two, engrafting the wild olives to the true one. There would be no question. Here God could exercise His power whether He would cut those trees or not -- there is no question. But if He comes here and does that before the two parties are separated, a question might arise. Do you know that clearly? If you are vague about that I cannot go on. Are you sure that is clear? Would you like me to say it again?

To start with Jacob, he was the first victor. With him as the center, the tribal level was developed into the next level and still the next level of the nation. Thus, the chosen nation of the Israelites came about. That nation was entirely separated from Satan. They were on God's side. So, by restoring those people, God, fighting the final winning battle, found the central figure and the Messiah, the true olive, and engrafted the wild olive to the true olive, as branches are engrafted to a tree. God can freely cut those wild olives to be engrafted to the true olive. In the other world, if God should do that a problem would arise and they would come to fight against God. So, God temporarily left the Satanic world and worked with those who developed the Providence of Restoration in the world under God through the chosen nation of the Israelites. If I have to repeat, these people are in the position of the wild olives on the Satanic side. We can call them the archangels on the Satanic side. The people as wild olives under God (belonging to God) can be called the archangelic world under God.

Since God created archangels first before the creation of any other thing, He is first of all going to restore the archangelic world into the original one. At the time of the human Fall the disobedience of the archangel caused the Fall, so now God is going to make the archangelic world into archangels who are obedient. Only after God created the archangels did He create man. So, in the course of re-creation, also, God would like to have the archangels' position restored. After doing that, He will be able to restore or re-create His own children. In other words, God wanted to restore one nation -- the nation in the archangelic position -- before restoring the nation in Adam's position. To that nation, He was going to send the person of the Second Adam, or the Messiah, as the true olive tree.

The person representing the true olive must be of a different blood lineage. In him the nature and degree of love must be different as well -- a difference similar to that between master and servant. Do you understand? The people are in the servant's position while the Messiah is in the subject position -- the Master's position. But due to the human Fall these two powers have been fighting each other. In the course of restoration, however, God want to harmonize and unify these two powers. In restoring the people God would accomplish this. The archangels existed before the creation of man. They ministered to God and advised Him in the course of the creation of man. In the course of re-creation, God wants the archangel to help His son, while still in the mother's womb, before birth. Like those Israelite people, they must be cooperative with God, hoping and wanting the Messiah to be sent in love. The Israelite people, therefore, should have prepared for the coming of the Messiah in consultation and cooperation with God, and should have done everything for the coming of the Messiah. Upon meeting the Messiah, they should have ministered to him in love and happiness.

This is a relationship similar to that of the archangel and Adam. The Messiah is the fruit of Abel and these people are the fruit of Cain. In the beginning the archangel should have obeyed Adam. If we put the Messiah in Abel's position and the people in Cain's position, in the beginning Cain should have obeyed Abel and the Israelite people should have obeyed the Messiah. But there was a barrier between the Messiah and the Israelites, making it difficult for them to obey the Messiah or to reach him. Before the human Fall, Abel and Cain were on the side of God. Both the archangel and Adam were under God. Both came out of God. But after the Fall, the archangel was out of Satan. He is the restored being here, but his starting point was from Satan. He had to come back from Satan. The starting points of these two are different. Isn't that true? So, in the Providence of Restoration those two must have the same starting point. Then, for whom was the archangel created? The archangel was created for the sake of Adam -- in order to realize the ideal of God. The ideal being God's love, the archangel should have loved God and by his loving both God and Adam, he could have become one with them. Because of illicit love, the blood lineage was stained or shifted to a different one, so in the course of re-creation or restoration, the blood lineage must be shifted back. So, centered on the Messiah, they must be united into one. That means it is inevitable that God has to cut those olive trees -- the Israelites -- and engraft them to the true olive. By engrafting those in the archangel's position into the tree of Adam without the Fall, they can be united into one with Adam without the stained blood lineage. In that way they will become one and enjoy the same father in purity. Do you understand so far?

Then, what must be done to make the action of engrafting possible? What would you do first? Separation. Separation in what way? To separate means to cut. Simple, we have to cut those, wild olive trees. Where do you cut the wild olive? Cut away the leaves? Trunk? You have to cut the trunk, barely leaving the root. If man is in the position of the tree of the wild olive, where would you cut him? Are man's legs the root part? If you stand upside down you look like a tree. You may leave your head and cut away all your body. Then what would happen if your neck is cut apart from your head? You will die? If you are ready to die by having your head cut off -- if the Messiah's head was to be put on your body -- what would happen? It is similar to engrafting. You will go through the operation of having the Messiah's head replace yours. After that, who do you become? You no longer are yourself, but you are the Messiah. You will think, speak, act in the same way as Jesus does. You will always think about God and act in the way God wishes you to do. All your thoughts and actions will be in accordance with God's will. God would have multiplied so many people like the Messiah in such a way that the whole world would become like God. In that case you are in the position of the Messiah, so you can say that in you is running purified blood and you are under God's lineage. And that's what makes the Restoration Providence possible.

Originally, God could not put the archangel in the position of His son. Only by bringing him under the same lineage can you put him in the son's position. Do you understand? Nothing else could help in this case. No words can purify him. No other way but by engrafting -- cutting away the major part and engrafting him to the original olive tree. This is what has to be done. For fallen men in the archangel's position to be sons of God there can be no other way than to cut away the less important part and engraft them to the true olive tree -- the Messiah. Is this clear? So, do you need the Messiah or not? How important is the Messiah for you? More important than your head -- than your whole being! That's why Jesus said that if you are going to follow him, you have to deny yourself. He meant that you must cut away what you have been. Those who want to die will gain their lives. Those who want to gain their lives will lose them.

Then, who is going to cut off the head of the people? In the time of Jesus who was supposed to do that? Jesus? Then, we can say that Jesus, the Savior, came to the world to decapitate people. That was the mission of Jesus! It sounds funny, doesn't it? Could that be actually so? Could that be the Messiah's mission? In actuality, if that had to be done, who should have cut off the head of the people instead of Jesus? The sinners themselves should have done that! The first man, Adam, caused the Fall, and he himself fell, so you in the position of fallen Adam must cut yourself. Doesn't that sound logical?

People say that they believe in God and the Messiah for the sake of God, for the sake of the Messiah, but ultimately they are doing that for their own sake. You believe in the Divine Principle, believe in God, believe in the True Parents. But whom are you doing that for? For yourselves, in the ultimate sense. So, if you are going to work here, don't ever think you are doing that for the sake of God or for our Master. You are doing what you are doing for your own sake. You say that you are going to work for this nation, but ultimately you are going to work for your own selves. Everything that you are doing is connected with yourselves -- with us. You can say that for your own salvation, for your own good, God, Master, all the members, all the people are in cooperation with you. While the people must work for the sake of God and for the sake of the Messiah, both of them, on their part, want to work for the sake of man. God is there for the sake of men, and the Messiah is there working for the sake of the people. After going beyond the stage of the Fall, by being restored into the original position, only then can they really say that they are working for the sake of God and the Messiah. We can conclude, therefore, that Christians of the world not having been able to go beyond that boundary should not say that they are working for the sake of God, for the sake of the Messiah. Up to the present moment, no Christian has ever know this fact. Unless you are beyond that boundary, you are always indebted to God, to the Messiah, to the past saints and to the helpers around you. Isn't that true?

So, even though you may be in the position of the leader, you cannot have your members under you just obey you unconditionally, ordering them to do this or that. With those people under you, you can play the role of the commander or the leader. Those people made you their leader, so in order to keep your position as a qualified leader you must come down to the level of your members, serve them, be recognized and served by them, They as well as you are in the position of fallen men and you are made the leader above them, so you are indebted to them in a way. In order to repay them you must come down to them and serve them. Only by serving them can you qualify to be their leader. If you take yourself too dearly, wanting them to serve you alone, then you will become the Second Satan.

In Romans, Chapter 8 it is said that all the Creation groans in travail together, waiting for the day in which they can dominate themselves. The resurrection of man will be through his acquiring the power to dominate himself. Only after going through that boundary can we control ourselves. Before that you cannot advocate your own selves. So, in the path of faith, those who will persevere to the last will win and become the victors. If you want to put yourself in the higher position, you must be able to return all glory, all praise, to God. Do you understand that? As to the blessed couples, until you have restored the whole nation under God, you are not really qualified to be served by others. You must be able to interpret anything and everything in view of the Divine Principle. Everything taking place in our group will be done in the light of the Divine Principle and in accordance with the Divine Principle. If you have a hole in the wall of such size and shape you must fix it with the same size and shape. That's why Jesus said, "I came not to be served, but to serve." In fact, he came to be served, but in order to teach the people, he said that. Is that clear to you? Master, too, is in the position to serve you and to help the world be restored. Until he has restored the whole world he will not be able to enjoy his glory. But you are still in the stages lower than the Master. You must be well aware of that fact. You must never want to be served but to serve.

If you follow and are obedient to the Master, you can go beyond that boundary without having to pay much indemnity. Do you understand what I mean? Then, how much do you need the Messiah? To what degree? He corresponds to the whole world -- the universe and more. For you to be engrafted, when the true olive appears as a tree you can cut some of the branches and have them engrafted to you. Even a small bud, when it is engrafted to you, will make you into a true olive. We have here both the wild olive tree and the true olive tree. Before bearing the fruit, no one can tell if it is true or wild. However, the value of those two are entirely different. You would have one bud of the branch of the true olive for all of the wild tree. Unless people are experts in discriminating, when they see it done, they might call you crazy -- when they see that you want to cut off the big tree.

Here in this world there are many families and nations already grown big in the Satanic world. If they should cut away their glory just for one bud of this tree, to the amateur, yes, it would look foolish. People here will claim and call out to the world, "Let us make a family, a nation!" But the people of the Satanic regime have already made families and nations throughout the world. They will laugh at you. If someone leaves the glory of the whole world to come and join here, wouldn't people laugh at him for leaving all that glory for a small budding thing? But you are wise to cut away all your worldly glory -- your family, friends, nations and all other things for the sake of one budding movement. Jesus was going to explain that point to the people when he wanted them to deny their lives in order to join him. He said those things only in parables and in symbols because there were Satans all around him. He said he came not to bring peace to the world but to bring the sword. Then, it was only too natural for him to arouse controversy.

In sending you out of your own country to come to the U.S., your physical parents may have thought that you were going to have wealth and glory. For that reason they let you alone. But if you were going to the African jungles or to the mountains, would they have let you go? You must be grateful that Master is here and calling you here so that you have not been faced with so much objection. You must know that Master has gone through a lifetime of difficulty and hardship in order to bring this day. Are you grateful to me or not? The answer is simple. If you join in the efforts with Master, in utter obedience to him, you have already gained the family level of restoration. By engrafting yourself you have already become one with him and gone beyond the level of family and nation and are entering your work in the worldwide level. If you have restored one nation with him then all other nations are on the same level in a position to be engrafted by him. That would make things easier. Even presidents of countries could come to our ideology and our Master. In the long run, after awhile, we will be able to engraft all the people overnight. We will have restored all the nations and influenced the entire political world. At that point we will be able to amend laws, articles of constitutions, if we wish to do so. Does it sound easy or not? Again, I must say that if we have the nation fully restored, from that nation we can influence all the nations of the world on the political base. If we can make amendments on one of the articles of the constitution to make it possible, we can do it overnight.

With so many nations coming under our ideology, even the Communists will have to bow down before us. Do you want to be swallowed by Communism or to swallow Communists? If we can unite three other nations with our nation, the restored nation, we can work. We are going to restore the nation in Adam's position and in Eve's position and in the archangel's, then our work will be easy. By training the people and by having them armed with the weapon of Truth, they can never escape -- they will not want to escape from God's side.

Since you came from such far away nations, what I have said to you is something that I have never said to other groups. Of course, I told them something about engrafting, but not in such detail. Then, are you ready to be engrafted to the true olive tree or not? Are you ready to have your family, your relatives be engrafted to the true olive? As I have said before, at the time of the Fall, there was separation between Cain and Abel, so by coming back together by Cain's obeying Abel -- those two put together can go beyond that level to the original position. So we can say that only by those two coming to one in harmony can they go over the boundary. So, when you want to bring your family, your relatives in the course of salvation, you must have them obey you and have them be united with you in hope and oneness and then you in Abel's position and they in Cain's position put together can go beyond the boundary. Suppose there are Abel and Cain, even though they have already become one with each other, they have God above and Adam below. Abel is in the position to belong to God's lineage, so that means that those in Cain's position must become one with the person in Abel's position. Through Abel or through the person of purified lineage alone you can enter that stage. God has nothing to do with the person belonging to the Satanic side. In loving, he must love under him on God's side. In doing things for man he is going to do things for people who are on God's side alone. So, those who are in Cain's position, those on the Satanic side must reach God through those people -- by loving those in Abel's position, by joining that person. Adam or Abel will be the first one to enter here and by following him alone, the man in the position of the archangel can do the same.

Broadening the scope, we can say any family in Cain's position must reach God through the family in Abel's position. This family is ahead of families in Cain's position -- by following the family in Abel's position, the family in Cain's position can reach the same level. The same applies to tribe and nation. The relationship between the archangel and Adam is something like that between Cain and Abel. So, in that sense, the archangel should have obeyed Adam in order to reach God. He should have become one with Abel in order to reach God. One thing you must remember is when you put yourself in Cain's position and try to obey the person in Abel's position then you are safe to reach God. In ministering to Master, of course, and to the Messiah, you are always in Cain's position. In order for you to reach God you must be obedient to the Messiah. In following the Messiah you will go over the boundary of the individual level, tribal, national and worldwide level. Before you, he has already done that by his own effort. He has already gone through the stages of the individual, family, tribal, national levels. As the person in the position of Abel, the Messiah must do the things ahead of those in Cain's position.

Without the one nation restored, can you ever dream of saving other nations? Let's suppose there is a big city with ten or more churches. If we don't even have one of our own can we restore those churches? With one church of ours there, we must walk ahead of the other churches to show them how to go that way, to train them and teach them the truth. If the leader of the church would put himself in the position of the master, teaching them, serving and loving them and doing everything for them, he can lead the people to the same goal. By your doing that you can influence other churches, other communities and the whole nation. In the days of Jesus, if the people of Cain's position had ministered to him and followed him, he could have influenced the whole Roman Empire and around those nations there could not have come Arab nations or Moslems. They could not have come into being and he could have restored the whole world in his lifetime. Now there is the enemy of Communism and after that, very possibly, we may have to fight and win over the Moslem religion. With that great task ahead of us we have to strengthen ourselves by arming ourselves with the truth and zeal to work for the cause. With all those things in mind you must know how great your responsibility is going to be.

Where did the true olive come from? In what way did it come into being? This world is Satanic, so out of what lineage can it come if all the lineage is stained? From what lineage can he be given birth? This is a great problem. Don't you think that God must have been thinking how to shift the lineage -- how to shift the Satanic lineage into God's? If we were to describe it in detail, it would be a limitless story. This is only an outline of how God would shift the lineage.

God is the God of Principle. Apart from the law, the Principle, God cannot work. At the time of the creation of man, in what way was it done? The creation was done centered on love. What kind of love? The love of God, and He could not but advocate to the world that the love of God is the first thing. The desire of fallen Adam was to perfect himself, to perfect his love. God wanted to abide in love. Adam and Eve also wanted to live there. God is the ultimate subject of love. Then we must call the people and tell them to come back to God's love. Love is all, love is the only thing. In restoring God's love, you must be able to deny yourself, your family and everything. Love alone is what you must take heed of. Without love, nothing could have come about. From love alone creation was possible and everything and anything came into existence. Love is something made possible through the action of give and take. God is ready to give out His whole being, and man, in return, must be ready to give out everything to God.

From man's part, man must be loving God so dearly as to be able to deny his own life -- to give his own life. You have a false life born out of false lineage, but you want to be restored to have true life born out of true lineage. If there be any constitution under the law of restoration, the first article must be the love of God. So, the Bible said the first commandment should be to love God with all your sincerity, with all your heart and with all your soul. That's the first commandment. The first article of the commandment in God's world is love. The second article should be you must love your neighbors as you love yourself. With those two done or practiced, you can do anything. When you are told to love your neighbors as your own self, it means you must love your neighbors as God would love you. We are going to put this world of fears and confusion into order by practicing the love of God in this way.

When you were given birth, were you born out of life or born out of love? Whose love were you born out of? Parent's love. Will you put God in the position of parents? Without your being one with God you cannot be given birth -- rebirth. So, only by going through the person of God's love -- the person whom God loves most, only by joining him can you reach God. There are a vast number of individuals living in the world, but each and every person living must join the person whom God loves most in order to reach God. God needs desperately those whom He loves most. By setting up the tradition through this man, God is calling the people to follow him or join him. Not just the people on the individual level but also their families will come together with the family at the core, which God loves most. All tribes must join the tribe of the central mission and all nations must join the nation of the central mission. That's the leading center family, tribe and nation. That's natural, isn't it?

Where does the restoration begin? We must restore the angelic world first. Isn't that true? However, can God trust the archangel? Even at the time when there was Adam with the archangel he was so evil as to cause the Fall. Therefore, God cannot trust the archangel. But without the person in Adam's position, can God trust the word of the archangel -- the people in the position of the archangel? Since all the people of the world are in the angelic position, God cannot trust them. By giving them words, training them, almost forcing them to follow Him, through a central personage, He would want to have the people restored back to Himself. Since the sinful people killed the son of God at the time of Jesus, who came in the position of Adam, God can never believe or trust the people in the angelic world. This time, however hard people may try, by denying themselves and doing everything for the sake of God, still God cannot trust them. Only if you can deny yourself as many times as you may be caught under persecution, under trial, will God be able to trust you.

God had raised and prepared the chosen nation of Israel to receive Jesus and He wanted to trust them, but still the nation of his choice killed Jesus. How can He believe the people of the world now? God had the people go through trials and difficulties. If they persevered in loyalty and faith in God then He could believe the people of the world. For that reason, God had many people go through martyrdom. God would want the martyrs to glorify Him even at the moment of death with all the people around watching -- God wanted His people still to believe in Him. Out of those martyrs how many were in that position? Some have died in order to save themselves, but how many were willing to die for the sake of God and for the sake of the Messiah? How many were in such a position as to be martyred that they might leave a good tradition to the world? Most of them were vacillating until death. They were barely able to go through death; and then because, in doing so, they could save themselves. Most of them died not to love God more than anything else, but to save themselves. Those martyrs who were ready to die for the sake of God could be saved and be near God in the spirit world. For the others there were no such places. Do you know that much?

God is in search of those whom He can trust, but on this side men want to have God for their own sake. Both sides have different ideas. The same is true between you and myself. When I want to have you work for this cause I want to locate persons whom I can trust. But on your part, you are doing things in order to save yourselves. If you are sent for a more difficult task, you will complain saying that others have better jobs and yours is a difficult one. In that case are you loving God or loving yourself? Which is true? In the course of their faith all the past people of religion had goals different than what God would have them pursue. Would you want to have a God who will trust you or who will love you? You want first of all to become one whom God can trust and then you would want to become one whom God can love most. If God cannot trust someone, how can you trust that person? If God cannot love that person, then how could you love that person? Unless God trusts and loves you, you cannot even dream of being loved or trusted by people.

With that in mind we must follow a way even worse than what is taking place in the Satanic world. So, there must be a revolution in our thought. When I trust you, when I love you, you can trust and love me. But where there is no trust and love between you and myself then how can trust and love come about between us? The same is true of God. You must cultivate yourselves so that you can be trusted and loved by God. In order to train you for that God is sometimes putting you on trial. God wants to find out that you are loving and trusting Him as your own life. You must be so prepared that you can be loved and trusted by God -- that's what must be done from your own part. So, in restoring the people of the angelic world, God would have them martyred, and at the time of martyrdom, He would examine the attitude they had. Are they giving their lives for the cause of God or for the sake of their own salvation? Let's suppose that out of the martyrs who died in the hands of Satan, there were persons who were ready to die for the sake of the Messiah, because they felt in the bottom of their hearts that the Savior Jesus Christ died on the cross for their sake. So, they were prepared to die for the sake of the Messiah and for the sake of God. Even though they may not be saved by doing that, they were ready to die for the sake of the Messiah. God would trust that kind of person.

Peter died on the cross by being put upside down. In that case, he would kill himself, because he knew that he was the very person who put Jesus on the Cross. So, even shedding blood, he hated himself to such an extent as to have to kill himself -- and he glorified the Messiah and asked forgiveness from him. He thought he was so much indebted to Jesus that killing himself would not do anything to repay the debt, so by dying in that way he was forgiven. Do you know what I mean? In the days to come, when you have to go through the trials in victory, God will watch you, and if you say to yourself, "I am so much indebted to God and to the Messiah, and I am out of the stained lineage, so why am I not ready to kill myself and be willing to die?" At that point God will be on your side, trying to save you.

If you really know that in you is running the stained blood of Satan, you would not only want to cut off your head, but every cell you would want shifted into God. With that knowledge can you complain while going through the way of the Divine Principle? If God is loving me, why does He put me to such a trial? Can you say that? Master, himself, has had to go through such difficulty and even in prison there was not a single moment when he complained to God -- rather, he consoled Him, His heart. In that situation, he said to himself, "I am the son of God, I have the dominion over angels, over Satan. I will not be defeated, I will not look or be miserable under their persecution." What he was worried about was God's heart worrying about him, so he would tell Father, "God, don't worry about me at all, I am sound and sane and ready to win over Satan." Sometimes he would cough up blood and he would soak his hand in the blood and lift his hand up high to all who had martyred their lives for the sake of God saying: "You had the martyrs go through their suffering because You wanted to find a person whom You could trust. Now I am here to do Your will; You can trust me. Not only can You trust me, but also You can love me. I want to be qualified for that. My blood is the proof of that by which I am trusted and loved by You. So, I glorify You for this." He did not have a complaining attitude about God; neither was he saddened by his own suffering. He turned the situation into one of gratitude, because he knew that in that situation he was loved and trusted by God. If he was like that, would God love him or not? Would God like him or not? Our Master says: "I feel God's love. I feel as though God is loving me. I am always feeling the love of God in me, so I am happy." In the beginning of his mission he was resolved to give away his life. But he still has his life and he is grateful for that. If in that situation, he is ready to give up his life, would God not want to save his life? If you are in that position, God is ready to love you, because His love would abide in you when you are ready to give your life and love out for Him. Love alone is victory, Jesus said it's everything. Do you know that? Do you want me to continue?

There must be the point of time where the central figure representing the true olive and the central figure representing the wild olive meet. Who could be the representative for this side? The person in the position of John the Baptist. If John the Baptist had become one with Jesus, what could have happened? If John the Baptist believed in Jesus there could have been brought about love between him and Jesus. No love being there, Jesus was destined to die. The question is, out of what lineage was Jesus born? Do you think that Jesus had his father or not? What makes you think that? He was the son of man. Could there be any father to Jesus who was out of God's lineage -- the purified lineage? Then, we have to trace back his lineage -- the ancestry of all purified lineage. Isn't that logical? Then, in what way can we trace that, and who must have been Jesus' father? That's a riddle. Today, I will not touch upon that. The condition of blood lineage is something so complicated that it would take hours for me to explain it in detail, but if I were to give it to you in simpler form, it may take an hour or so. In what way would you have me talk? Long? It would take me such long hours that you may have to listen to me until almost midnight. I don't want to stop a minute and I don't want you to leave this place until that time. Would you do that? [YES!] You are liars! Then, you will see streams of tears running. I hate to see that happen, so I will cut it short. I am only joking. (Writing on the board ... )

Before the human Fall there was God, Adam, Eve and the archangel. The order of things was for God to dominate Adam, Adam to dominate Eve, and Eve to dominate the archangel -- or man to dominate the archangel. If the order had been kept, there could not have been any Fall and the whole world could have become the Kingdom of God. This order is the original one. But due to the human Fall, they went the reverse way -- the archangel dominating Eve and Eve dominating Adam. Because of the human Fall, God had to follow men in order not to let them go; He had to work through them. Why didn't God kick away man? Why did He have to follow man? That's because even though man had fallen, the Principle of Creation was still left. So, He had to restore those men to the original position. So, in the course of restoration or re-creation God had to locate a person prepared to follow God or to obey God. Then, with this person located, whom else did God have to find? After the person in the position of Adam, He had to locate a person in the position of Eve -- as husband and wife, or brother and sister. Then, whom else must He have found? The person or persons in the position of the archangel.

If it had not been for the human Fall, the multiplied descendants of theirs could have formed the world population without sin; but due to the Fall, God had to restore this world. Until now, this world has been under archangelic or Satanic dominion. So, first of all, He must bring these people back under the dominion of the restored archangel. Then, in what way, in what manner, is God going to restore these people? Due to the human Fall, people were born out of Satanic lineage -- that means out of archangelic lineage -- bringing them back in the course of re-creation. What must be restored? The people under the lineage of the restored archangel or something else? In the stage of people's restoration of the restored archangel, those in the position of Adam and Eve are not connected yet, they are in the position of brother and sister. So, in the Christian world, especially in Catholicism, they advocate that their people remain single -- leading a life of celibacy. Because the original parents or True Parents have not appeared, they are in the same position as before the Fall. At the time of the Fall, Eve caused the Fall by her being tempted and by becoming one with the archangel. So, at this time, people in the position of Eve or in the position of fallen man must go into the Satanic world and restore the people back to God -- Adam and Eve again. By the time of the Second Advent, the restored archangelic world in Christendom must come about. Only at the time of the coming of the True Parents, can all those people be restored to God in a real sense. The original order being this, the fallen act being the other way around, in the course of re-creation, we must put all things in the right order this way. With that done, the element of the Fall is eradicated.

So, through the True Parents the original order will be produced again. Can the people put the True Parents in the position where they have to go through difficulties again? Is that the Principle? But for the human Fall, with the appearance of the True Parents everything could have been in order and all populations from that time could have been without the Fall, by ministering to the True Parents. However, could Master start from the point of being ministered to by the people? Then, where did he start his career? Where did he start his mission -- in what way? Was there any servant? Any son before him -- any adopted son -- any true son before him? At the time of Jesus, God wanted the people to be brought up to the stage of adopted servanthood, adopted sonship and true sonship. But because of Jesus' crucifixion, all was nullified, and the Lord of the Second Advent must go through all the stages by himself. Those who are under the age of 38, will you hold up your hand? If, when Master started his mission, the Christian world had become one with him, you, under the age of 38, could have been born in the Godly world. But since the Christian world did not cooperate with him, you were given birth in the miserable world under Satan. The Christians who could not minister to him or could not cooperate with him are doomed to destruction, while the second generation, who are to follow the Master, will enjoy life in the Kingdom of God. But unless you work so hard as to put yourself in the position of your forefathers as they commenced their life in Christianity, you cannot build the Kingdom of God. Do you have more zeal than your forefather, the early-day Christians? [YES!] They were all ready to be martyred for the sake of their Lord, the Messiah. Are you ready to be martyred, kill yourself, for the sake of Master? Even though you had to sacrifice yourself for the sake of evil men? If, at the command of our Master, you would have to die fighting against Communism in a Communist country, would you do that? I would not like that to happen, but you must be prepared for that.

Since he had to go through all the different stages, beginning from servanthood, where do you think he began his mission, in what way? Have you ever stopped to think of that? He had to go through the dungeon of dungeons, the hell of hells. You can never imagine what he had to go through. If he was to start his mission somewhere in the middle, he could not save the people in the rear, so he went to the extreme end, or bottom, to save those people -- not leaving anyone behind. He chose to put himself in that position. What did I tell you about cutting off your head would you have God do that or would you prefer to do that yourself? Master, being a representative of all the people of the world, would like to put himself in that position. If he remained with folded hands without doing anything, do you think that God's ideal could be realized? In fact, he should have started his mission through the prepared nation, with the tribe, family -- all those things already there. But all those things being multiplied and not being brought about, he had to start all over again from the bottom. He would not allow Satan to come and capture him, but he would from his own accord fall down to the bottom and save the world by serving the world. What he had gone through is more than the scene of Gethsemane for Jesus. By serving servants or the last of evil people, he had to build and pave the road for his followers to follow. He did not complain even though he may have had to throw away the throne as a prince of God and come to the servitude of mankind by putting himself in the dungeon and hell of the world. He was in the position of not only a servant, but of a servant of servants. He came down to the very bottom in order to save everyone there.

When he had to go through life in prison, that was something miserable -- a dungeon of dungeons. At that moment God was so grieved. He didn't want to grieve God's heart, so he would turn away from God, so that God would not see what he was going through, but God was always there helping him. In many instances God appeared and helped him. If you had the knowledge of everything Master had to go through, you could not lift your face before him. Even before some of you were born, or were still young, he was already going through those trials. He found many disciples in the prison, like the twelve disciples of Jesus. The basic number of elder members were found right there in prison. The people, the Christians as well as the government, the nation, wanted to kill him. Not to speak of the Communists. He went through many instances where death was waiting for him.

Now, in Korea, no Christian or government officials can get to our movement, and they are more or less in favor of our movement. They now realize that they cannot go without us and our young people, who are the ones putting our ideology into practice. When he was visiting the U.S. and the world and many other European countries, he shouted out to the world and he had no opposition from the audience. That means that he was in the position of Jesus crying out to the multitude in the Roman Empire. All the people came in cooperation with him with no objection. In Jesus' days, because of the crucifixion of Jesus, he realized the resurrection of the people only on the spiritual level, but now with Master here he is going to make it a success both spiritually and physically. So, think! You having been born in this age and having met Master, walked hand and hand with him, you must be grateful for that. Jesus, in his life, was barely in the stage of the restoration of the nation, but you are now in the stage of restoration on the worldwide level by working with him. So, this is a miracle of miracles -- your working with him in your own lifetime. Do you really know and feel that?

You must know that there is one thing you must be afraid of. If, after you have joined this movement, you would go astray, and would do things opposite to those things that he would have you do, in that case you should be fearful. But if you are ready to dedicate yourself in utter devotedness to carry out the mission with and through him, he is a loving father to you with all love shining over you. Which way would you choose? If you are really sensitive to spiritual things, if you have not quite carried out your assigned mission and have been doing something else or thinking something else, when Master appears to you, you feel fearful and uncomfortable. However, if you follow in utter obedience to him, by carrying out your mission in place of him, you are privileged to shift your blood lineage into the purified one -- the original -- God's blood lineage. You can inherit what he has already won. You can possess the whole world. Can you imagine that you cannot find anywhere else in the whole world a place where you can enjoy this much? Then, you must be afraid of not being told to do things. If he would let you go without doing things, that's when you should be afraid. If you are let alone, that's something to be concerned about. If I should let you alone, would you sit still and do nothing? Even though I may let you alone, if you do this and that and offer to work for him and ask him to send you out to the front-line for the most difficult job, would Master scold or punish you for that? Now, you know that much.

Can you idle away your time on the mobile team without doing anything? While your mobile team commander is away, you want to rest and relax; while he is there, you want to work or you pretend to work. Can you be that way? Then, in that case you are committing double sin. You are evil in the sight of the commander and he will say to you, "I am watching!" God will say the same to you and the members will see you from that angle. I hope and I believe that you will not do that. Can I trust you? If you want to, you can go ahead and do that and try to pretend to work when your leader is there and not to work with folded hands, when he isn't -- but your conscience will not let you do that. You will be tortured in heart if you do that.

When you have worked so hard during the whole day and when you are in bed, you would have to lift your legs like this, because you feel your legs hurt. Even though you have sore legs you will be happy and satisfied for what you have done. You may have to groan in bed for the pain you feel in your legs, but you are grateful for what you have done and God will love you. Since God would love you, you are satisfied with yourself and people around you will look at you in the same mood. In that situation, even though you are in pain, when you look at your own hand you will find it shining, your whole body gleaming, emitting life from God. You will find the whole room being ignited, lighted by yourself. That actually happens. In that situation, are you unhappy or happy? So, we can say that you are the happiest people in the whole world.

While you must be proud of yourselves, if you are gaunt and helpless in despair, would God like to see you? You have to keep your dignity as children of God. So far, I have told you because I wanted you to know that; in order for you to be restored, there must be some toll of indemnity to be paid by you. But before you, I have gone through all those things, to pave the way, to make your burden lighter than what it should be.

Now, let's talk about in what way, in what lineage, Jesus was born. To shift the blood lineage is to bring the person back to the original place where the blood is not stained. Who was the first person whose blood was stained by the Fall? Female or male? Female. After the Fall, between Cain and Abel, who nullified the Providence of Restoration? Cain. It was Eve as the mother who sowed the seeds of the Fall, while the fruit of the Fall was Cain and Abel. So, in our study of the Divine Principles, we know about the cooperation between mother and son. Then, in the Providence of Restoration, who is in the place of Eve? Because of the human Fall, sinful descendants were multiplied out of the female, so we must restore the whole of mankind by putting them in such a position as to go through a mother's womb and be given rebirth. Therefore, you must put yourself back in the womb of a mother having nothing to do with sin. That's why in the Bible, when Nicodemus asked Jesus how to be reborn, Jesus said, "Unless you go into your mother's womb again you cannot be given rebirth." It was Nicodemus' question: "How can I be given rebirth? Do I have to go into my mother's womb again?" Jesus answered him: "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand this?" Jesus was speaking symbolically, of course. The word "rebirth" refers to resurrection.

Then, how can you be given rebirth, and in what manner can you go back into your mother's womb to be given rebirth? Adam and Eve, due to their Fall, gave birth to two children and the first-born was Cain. The second-born was Abel. In the course of the Fall, Eve caused the Fall and next was Adam. In this case, too, Cain nullified the restoration. But for the human Fall, Adam had to dominate Eve. In this case, too, Abel had to dominate Cain. In the course of restoration, Adam must come first and Eve come next, Abel must come first and Cain must come next. That means we have to reverse the order in the course of restoration. By doing that we will shift the blood lineage. Because of the human Fall everything came into the reverse order, so in life you must shift your lineage. In the beginning, God created the archangel first and then man. But in terms of dominion the second-born, or man, who was created after the archangel, must be in the dominating position. But due to the Fall, dominion was shifted to the archangel or Satan. So, to shift the powers is to shift everything. We must do that.

In order to restore man to the original position we must shift the position, or shift the order. In the human Fall, Eve dominated Adam. So now we must have Abel dominate Cain. Abel must be loved by God before Cain. Through Abel, Cain can be loved by God. So, God received Abel's offering first, because Abel was in the position to be loved by God. By Abel's offering being accepted by God he could become one with God. So, if Cain had become one with Abel, he would have become one with God. But he failed to do that and God's providence centering on those two was nullified. In the order of love, Abel was to be loved by God before Cain, so he was to come to the position of God on the right side, while Cain had to come on the left side. Is this clear to you? So, the Restoration Providence between Abel and Cain, centering on Abel, was nullified there. Do you understand?

Originally, Adam and Eve could not participate in the Providence of Restoration because they were directly stained by the Fall. The restoration was possible through Abel and Cain. It's something like the idea that the subject can be realized through the object. At the time of Noah, through his faith in God and 120 years of preparation for God's providence to be carried out, he set an example of obedience to God in utter devotedness. So, through Noah God was going to make his Restoration Providence a success. So, through human history the Providence was narrowed down to be centered in one person. Two thousand years passed from the time of Cain up to that time. Through Noah and Abraham they reached Jacob. God failed in shifting the blood lineage because He had to work through the two brothers separately born. To make things easier He worked through the twin brothers, Jacob and Esau. Twin brothers have many things in common -- when one has a certain feeling toward a certain matter or cause, the other will feel much the same. In having them do that God is narrowing down the scope of bloodship or lineage. At the end, in order to be able to really shift the blood lineage, He has to do that at the same point. So, He has to work through the twins. Do you understand?

(Writing on the board .... ) Since Jacob's family was the in the position of Adam's family, we must know this. Adam caused the Fall, and Cain was the first fruit of the Fall. In this case Rebecca was in the position of Eve and Isaac was in the position of Adam, so those two must come into cooperation with each other. Now the reverse must take place. What did Eve do there? In the first place Eve cheated God. What did Eve do first? (She fell in love with Lucifer!) Yes, and by doing that she cheated God. Because she did that without God's consent. Second, she cheated Adam. She cheated Father and son. Rebecca, when she was in the position of Eve, had to undo that or do that in the reverse order. She had to cheat the father and son for the sake of goodness. Isaac was in the position of father. Esau was in the position of son. Rebecca had to cheat the father and son for the sake of goodness. Due to the human Fall Eve gave birth to Cain, the first-born, so this time, after the Fall, the one in the position of Eve must become one with the person in the position of Abel. Do you understand? So, Rebecca in the position of Eve became one with Jacob in the position of Abel. By cheating the father and son she had Jacob inherit the blessing of father and son. One is in the place of God on the spiritual level, the other in the position of the world on the spiritual level. So, the reverse order was made here by inheriting the blessing.

In the beginning, by Eve and Cain becoming one and Eve giving birth to the evil son, the restoration was nullified. So, in the course of restoration, Rebecca, in the position of Eve, by becoming one with Jacob, in the position of Abel, reversed the order. The failure was undone, and the blessing was inherited. So, by Rebecca's becoming one with Jacob and restoring the blessing, Heaven won. In Christianity, no one has ever taught that fact to the people, so that they have been entirely ignorant about Jesus' lineage. Morality or ethics were all nullified then, in shifting the lineage. Mother cheated father and again cheated her first-born. Jacob had to cheat his elder brother. But at all costs those central figures had to link the blood lineage in purity. So, that kind of cheating had to take place.

In doing that, was Jacob right or wrong? I know it may sound paradoxical, but we read in the Bible that we must be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves. The first Serpent stained man by causing him to fall. In doing that he cheated man. So, in restoring man from the evil sovereignty, we must cheat. If Esau had surrendered to Jacob, at that point the restoration could have been accomplished. But because Esau hated Jacob and wanted to kill him, Jacob had to flee to Haran, and then after 21 years of hard work, while he was on his way back, he was faced with the angel who was trying to fight with him, and by winning over the angel -- by wrestling -- he gained the name "Israel," meaning "victor." And that being done on the spiritual level, he could then win over Esau on the physical level, in actuality. That was the starting point of the Israelite nation -- the name "Israel" signifying victory.

What was left unaccomplished in Adam's family must be restored in Jacob's family, from Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and down to the family of Jacob. Jacob won over the family of Esau and the shift of the birthright was accomplished. Jacob was successful in winning the birthright to his side -- being the second-born. There was a success there, but it was done after they had reached maturity. They restored the lineage at their maturity -- so a portion was left unrestored. Rebecca, when she found out that the twin brothers were fighting with each other, she told God that there were two forces fighting with each other in her womb, and God said that those were two nations fighting each other and the second-born would win over the first and the first would have to serve the second. Symbolically, that showed the possibility of two powers, one on the good side and one on the evil side, having to fight against each other. The restoration was possible when they were born as twin brothers, but something else must be done there. The restoration must be done while those two powers are still in their mother's womb.

At this point we must also have a person in the place of Eve. That was Tamar. Tamar was in the position to have to cheat the father and son. But what kind of woman was she? She had to deny the father and the son. Tamar was the daughter-in-law to Judah. Judah's first son, Tamar's first husband, died. According to the Jewish custom, she would have to marry the second son, but he had died, too. The third son of Judah was too young for her. What could she have done to keep the lineage? She had to come together with her father-in-law. So, she disguised herself as a harlot and waited for her father-in-law to come back from the field, where he worked during the day. In that case Tamar had to deny the father-in-law relationship of Judah, denying father and son. She had to deny the father and son relationship. The only thing the had in mind was how to connect the blood lineage -- under Heaven -- under God's blessing. That was most dear to her, more than anything else in the whole world. She knew she had to restore the blood lineage at all costs, even if to be with her father-in-law meant to kill herself. At that time if one committed adultery, immorality, he or she was destined to be stoned to death. But she was ready to do that, at the cost of her own life. By doing that she was going to reverse what had been committed in Adam's family.

After joining with her father-in-law she was wise enough to ask for some signs of that night. She received the cane, the seal and sheep. Then she conceived a child. Her physical appearance soon showed to everyone that she was pregnant. Rumors spread and her father-in-law was furious. He was ready to have the people stone her to death. At that very moment Tamar showed him those three things, saying that the child conceived in her womb was the son to the father who gave her those things. Judah was surprised to realize what happened. He knew that he was the father to the child and he could say or do nothing to her. From then on the Providence of God was going to be realized.

The child was conceived in that manner -- and in the very womb of Tamar, twin brothers were fighting each other in this case, too. When Tamar prayed before God, the same message came from God, that she had two nations fighting with each other in her womb and the elder would have to serve the younger. The time for the moment of deliverance came and the elder was going to come out first. He let his handout first and the midwife fastened some red thread on his wrist. Something very strange happened: he drew the arm back to the mother's womb, signifying that Communism was going to appear in the world -- the red thread. After the first one drew his hand back, then, by pushing him aside, the second-born came out first. His name was Perez. Perez was born first. The name Perez means the one who came out by nudging aside his brother.

This is the first occasion in human history in which the birthright was shifted right in the mother's womb. Through the woman Tamar, for the first time in history, the shift of blood lineage was successful. Right in the mother's womb, the birthright from the elder to the younger was shifted. What is taking place in the mother's womb means to have gotten rid of the condition of indemnity. So, the shift of blood lineage was possible there and from then on.

Then, if Perez was born that way, why wasn't God able to send the Messiah right there? Up to that period they had to restore what had been lost during 2,000 years, so at that point in the Satanic world the people had multiplied to form a nation, so God had to send the Messiah on the national basis, and the people were not prepared yet. So, He had to prepare the people to be the chosen nation to receive the Messiah. Centering on the lineage of Judah, people multiplied to form the nation of Israel. In view of that law, from what lineage, from what tribe, was Jesus destined to be born? He had to be a descendant of Judah's lineage. So, all the Israelites think highly of their tradition and their blood lineage set up by Tamar. Tamar's idea and thought must be linked down to the point where they form a nation. And at that point there must come out a woman in the position of Tamar -- who would think more highly of blood lineage than of anything else. That was Mary. She had to go through the same thing.

Mary had her own father and her own husband. Mary again is in the position of Eve, but before the Fall, Adam and Eve were in the position of brother and sister -- they were in the engaged stage. Mary and Joseph were in the relationship of engagement. When Eve was in the stage of betrothal to Adam, taken away by the evil force, she had to do something similar to that -- so while she was in the stage of betrothal to Joseph, Mary had to bear a child out of a different lineage. An angel appeared before Mary, predicting the coming of the child under God. Then Mary said, "I know no man, then how can I bear a child?" Then the Bible says the angel told her what she had in her womb was of the Holy Spirit -- was of God. Instead of Satan, God would have something to do with the conception, and make her link into the lineage of God. She was one of those born out of this lineage and the baby conceived in Mary's womb had nothing to do with sin. The baby was coming without anything to do with the stained blood lineage. So, even while it was yet in her womb, she could love the baby. And at the time of his birth he was the first and only one to beloved by God to the full extent and that is why God called him His only son. This man can be called the true olive tree. Then, you can imagine how difficult it was for God's Providence to make that a reality -- to purify the blood lineage. Do you find that true, or do you think that is a fabricated story by Master? What took place far back in human history under God's Providence is truthful here and, with Master in the center of the mission, we are going to carry out the things which should have been accomplished by Jesus himself.

With the knowledge of all those things, can you deny the existence of God working behind the people and having the people work in such a way that His ideal can be realized? Can you deny the existence of God at all? You may want to deny Master, but with the fact that he discovered this truth alone, you can at least name him to be the world leader and the prophet of prophets. I deserve your belief in me -- your following me. There have been saints, prophets, many religious leaders and theologians in past human history, but not a single one of them has been able to find out that theory, that truth. So, Master here is more than any of those people and greater than Jesus himself. Don't stain the dignity of God by acting foolishly. You must think highly of your situation, of what you are, and you must keep the dignity of God. With the authority and dignity of God, you must build yourself, your family, your tribe, your nation and the whole world under God. Is everything clear so far? Joseph, in that case, was in the place of the archangel. So was Joseph in the position to be able to live with Mary?

With that done, with those things accomplished, now that Master is here leading you, if you devote yourself to him, cooperate with him, obey him in every way possible and follow him, you can make the whole world centered on God and there will be no Communists. Only Godly people will build the whole world on earth. That way we can erect the Kingdom of God on Earth. We will be the first citizens of the Kingdom to enjoy that. Are you ready to go that way despite all the costs you have to pay? If you are unwilling to do that, something miserable will happen to you and to your future descendants. Because this has got to be realized on earth, even though you may pass away to the next world, you will have to do that again.

You are in the position of the diseased and you need a physician, and Master is in that position. If you are a patient with an incurable disease -- almost hopeless -- would you not obey your physician in order to be cured? Even though you may have to drink bitter medicine, you have to do that. If he's going to give you a diagnosis and give you an injection you have to let him do that on your arm, your hip, even though you are virgin girls, you have to show him any part of your body. If you want to be engrafted to the pure lineage, would you do that on the individual level or on the family level? For you to be blessed in Holy Matrimony, by Master it is best. Then, would you expect him to bless you in the holy marriage? Would you want to be blessed? Sometime later I will tell you the significance of our mass weddings. For awhile we have to have mass weddings instead of blessings of single couples. In marrying people, too, I want to have it on the worldwide level. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, though they were only two, they represented the whole world. Master wants to have wedding ceremonies on a worldwide level, in front of all the people of the world. In the next wedding ceremony he may bless 2,000 or more couples from all over the world. If so many nations participate in the mass wedding it means that upon the formation of your family, you have something to do with so many nations and you are connecting your family to many other families or tribes in so many other nations. Would you like to have a mass wedding?

Today I have talked a lot, but the main point is that by the blessing we have to engraft ourselves to the purified blood lineage and by going through those stages you are shifted to individuals and families under God's lineage. This is a privilege and glory, so you must be grateful, and must glorify God for it. In going this way you may have to be placed in hardship and trials, but you must go the way in gratitude. Are you ready for that? You want to erect your family, engraft it to the lineage of God, and you will erect your family, your tribe and the whole world under that lineage. We must do anything for that, not complaining, but glorifying and praising God.

Heavenly Tradition

Reverend Sun Myung Moon
January 20, 1973
First International Training Session
Master Speaks
Translated by Mrs. Won Pok Choi

So far, I have told you that God wanted to have us go through the way of restoration on the substantial base rather than having us go through the way by setting the condition of indemnity. We must know that we have to pay the same amount of indemnity in order to restore ourselves. In other words we have to pay the due amount of indemnity. If we pay less than what we should, it would mean that God would have to pay that amount of indemnity for us. The Human Fall was caused by Adam and Eve, so in order for us to be able to restore our original position, we must go the reverse way by paying the toll of indemnity. Since the first human ancestors caused the Fall, in our way back to the original position, we must put ourselves in the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall. So, after we will have finished the course of restoration, we will be in the position of Adam and Eve before the Fall. A long period of time has passed, but when we will have finished, our restoration will be in the original position where Adam and Eve should have been before the Fall.

In Adam's family, God could not restore Adam and Eve right there, so He gave Cain and Abel to them, in order to work the providence of restoration. The parents, Adam and Eve, were in the position to cooperate with their children to have them restored, but they could not carry out the mission themselves. In another sense, we can say that God was in the position of the parent to the children. On God's part too, He cannot carry out the restoration of man on His own. He needs someone else to cooperate with Him. Adam and Eve were in the position not to be able to carry out the restoration providence on their own and they needed Cain and Abel to work through. Likewise, on God's part, He could not develop the providence of restoration of man by Himself; He needed mankind on the side of Abel, the other part on the side of Cain. In other words, in order for mankind to be restored to the original position, Cain must be obedient to Abel. Those two must become one with each other and then become one with God in wholesome oneness.

At present, the Democratic world and the Communistic world are the two parties -- one being in the position of Abel and the other in the position of Cain. Only with those powers put together will they be able to reach God through the True Parents. By being united with the True Parents they can reach God. That is the outline of the history of restoration through indemnity. When we look into the world we see that there are two parties of people: Cain on the worldwide level and Abel on the worldwide level. Cain and Abel on the worldwide level, when you narrow its scope, would correspond to Cain-type nation and the other to Abel-type nation. Narrowing down its scope, the Cain-type nation would correspond to the Cain-type tribe or clan, and the Abel-type nation would correspond to the Abel-type tribe or clan. The Cain-type clan would correspond to the Cain-type family and the Abel-type clan to the Abel-type family. And finally, the Cain-type family corresponds to the Cain-type individual and the Abel-type family corresponds to the Abel-type individual. And in a single individual, we find that the Cain-type mind and body and the Abel-type mind and body are at war with each other. There is a boundary all throughout those levels. The barrier was originated due to the Human Fall. Those in favor of God or on the side of mind are at war against those on the side of evil and on the side of materialism -- denying the existence of God.

From this point of view we can realize at what point we will meet the Latter Days or the Close of the Age. The war began between Abel and Cain because of the Human Fall, so, as long as that type of war continues, we cannot call it the Close of the Age. In other words, at the Close of the Age, the Abel-type must win over the Cain-type. But on the other hand if the Cain-type wins over the Abel-type, the sinful age cannot come to a close. They will struggle on to win over the opponent, but as long as they continue their war, we cannot see the end of the world. The Communistic and Democratic world have long been fighting each other. First they went through heated war, then cold war and now they are in the stage of having a peaceful war -- or war of appeasement. This fact is telling us that we do not fight with our fists and weapons alone. If we went on fighting against each other with weapons and fists alone, both would be corrupted, ruined. By doing that both the Democratic and Communistic worlds will be weakened and there will be rupture between those two. If they are weakened or diminished to be smaller and smaller, then they will both have been strengthened and multiplied and made bigger and bigger but now they are going to be weakened by the long war against each other. At that point they will not go the reverse way, but will go over the peak of the thing and both will be destroyed.

In the course of their long war, they each wanted to strengthen themselves to maintain a balance of power, and when they are at the peak of being diminished, they will not fall back to this side, but they will fall back beyond the peak to the other side. They are starting from the Communistic individual and Cain-type family, tribe, nation and world. The other party does the same. On the peak they are not going to go reversely down but they will go over the peak and they will fall on the other side. If they went up this way the idea was to have the whole world under their ideologies, but they will be diminished, although they will not throw away their ambition of having the world. Although they are on the way to destruction, their ideologies will be based on the worldwide base. They wouldn't discard the idea of having to include the whole world under their ideology. More than being the Abel-type nation or Cain-type nation, the strongest power must think that they are going to have the whole world as their nation. But having gone through the stage of the worldwide level, they will not throw away their ideology. So, even though their power will be diminished, they won't throw away their ideology of making the world into one. At the peak, if any one of the two would give up hope about having the leading power in the world, they would be faced with ruin and they cannot go over the peak to the other side. As time goes by, they will be diminished to nothing at full speed. For instance, if this course has gone through 2,000 years of history, this may take 200 years. Or it may be 20 years. In 1960 the situation was at the peak and then, going down to reach the year 1980, a new change will be brought about.

In the western world, individualism is prevailing. Externally they seem to cherish worldwide idealism, but inwardly they don't discard their imperialism or nationalism. They have tried everything on each level but those all being a failure they all go back to the individual level. Why is it so? When they fall back, they are back here in the position of Cain and Abel at the time of the Fall. Here they went up having hope, but now they are going down in utter distress, but they would not discard their world ideology. By this time, when they will have reached this point, when they look back, they will miss or long for the age of the peak, because they had something great there. What they had there was something worldwide. So, as small as they may be in scope, they still want to keep the worldwide base ideology here. At the point of their downfall, if they see an ideology as big as to encompass the whole world, they will be destined to follow that ideology at an instant. Human history, after 2,000 years of struggle, will diminish and reach the lowest point, but it's not going to die away. At that point something great will happen, like a seed planted to grow into new life. At that point it is supposed to be called the worldwide base or the Close of the Age.

There will be no single nation which would claim to be able to bring the whole world under it. No such idealism or ideology will survive. If at that point a certain group of people would appear proclaiming that they are going to make the whole world into one under God, people of the whole world are destined to follow that ideology. That is what we call the Unification Group. We can never imagine that any other group than ours can do that. People will have tested all other ideologies, religions and other things and will have reached the point of utter despair. At that moment, if the U. S. would claim to be the leading nation of the world or to be responsible for the welfare of all the nations, anybody would scoff at them. Could the Soviet Union do the same? Could Japan do the job? Could Germany? No, never! With those utterly helpless, who would do that? One of the religions maybe, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam? No, no such religions. People of the world will look around with attentive eyes and they will find our group, even though the men and women in this group might look shabby and miserable. This group of people, when they throw away their families, discard their nations and do things for the whole world, transcendent of national boundaries, what will be brought about as a result?

We have a fearful strategy -- the strategy of matrimony in holy blessing. That's something to be feared. That's more dreadful than atomic war. Have you ever stopped to think of that? Do you want to have free marriage or marriage under Master's blessing? If you are ready to be blessed by him, you need Master. Even though he may want to run away from you, you would have to run after him and stick to him. If you really know the value of holy matrimony, even if I may have to hide myself in the remote village on a mountainside, you will have to search for me, beseech me and bring me back to bless you. In the future, even the son of a German president, premier or chancellor as well as a prince or queen of England will be brought into our movement. If they really are our members, would they want to marry under his blessing? [YES!] There will be no difficulty to unite those two nations. No tradition will be there. They can tread down on the tradition. If that kind of thing is going to be done, by weaving all the people of the world interrelated like that, nothing will be difficult for us. After holy matrimony, we can never dream of parting with each other. It goes through eternity. If we think of that, we become more and more confident and we believe, we know that God will concentrate on us and focus His attention on what we are doing, always there helping us, so we are sure to win the victory in the end.

You must be grateful that you are given life in this age and you have joined the Unification Movement and that you have met your True Parents in the core of the family. While the world is going to be diminished and getting smaller and smaller we will rise and be multiplied, shining over the world.

By this point of time we will have our own nation and the nation will be hailed by all the population of the world. Then, what will happen there? Can you imagine? If we have a restored nation, we can use ambassadors and other diplomats to influence other nations through politics. A worldwide level atmosphere will be created. The year 1981 is the time of new start -- we have 7 or more years left. By that time we will have finished our third seven-year course. At that point of time we will have to pay the indemnity toll focused there. The Communist power will be at its height, and on the other hand, God will have raised up and strengthened us so that we will have the power to fight them. If, in the future, the champions of Democracy among the European nations, such as Germany, France or Italy, will have been absorbed by the Democratic power, God will be using the Democratic world and have it turned to other nations for that. By that time the Communist power, exercising its full strength, will have to expose the evilness of its ideology. The people of the world will turn against that horrible ideology and then it will make it easier for us to absorb the people. Then people of the world will look for some group in which there is full strength united into one and we will be there serving that purpose. In the Eastern world, Red China, North Korea and Russia have been massacring people and have committed incredible evil, but the people of the Western world won't believe that. They think those are fabricated stories. But they will be faced with those horrors as a reality. They have to go through all those stages in order to be able to recognize our group and recognize our God-centered ideology and for that day we are training ourselves here. And Master has chosen the U. S. to be the stage or scene of our training from which to fight against evil. You are the trainees, but not only trainees, but co-fighters, soldiers, being trained in the first international training session. You must well realize that you are at an historical occasion.

Out of all of you, who will make the top record in this historical event when we are going to be soldiers to fight for the great cause? That person will have set the standard, and people coming after us -- the trainees in later days-will set the standard on him. Who will earn the top record here? One of the German, Italian, British, Austrians, French, who? Centered on those who have made the top record, our heavenly tradition will be established and God will be with us, helping us. Whether or not you will gain the top record will be decided from whether or not you love the people of the world, you love God, so that you will, at any cost, have His cause made into a reality. Now I believe you know the outline of what the world will look like after we have fought that much.

God is working behind human history. In a way, He has made the world like it is -- to be in turmoil, chaos and confusion -- and in the background He will put all those things in order. This kind of thing cannot be done with human hands, but since God is working with man, it is possible. There is no question about that. When we are at the dead end, all blind and stalemated, you want to dig a hole there. Would you need a sharp pointed chisel -- a drill? Would you have the drill pointed and sharp or dull? The sharper the drill, the more pointed, the better. You may at times be impatient and you may think that if God is helping our movement it has to be multiplied by leaps and bounds. But don't worry about that. God is making this drill sharp and pointed. Small as it may seem, it has a lot of power to dig a hole in the wall.

By the year 1980, God may not concentrate on increasing the number of the people in our movement, because He knows that there will be more sacrifice if we have more members. If we have too many members, more sacrifice will be inevitable. Number does not count, if we have a great number of young people in the movement. Unless they get strengthened, it will cause more sacrifice. We are going to train you to be real strong members, to go through real hardships and difficulties. The question is not the Unification Church, but you, yourselves as individuals. Who is going to be the edge of the chisel? Each of you must be struggling to be that. You must be trying to become the top-level Abel... to become Abel in the sense that you want to sacrifice yourself at that point more than anyone else. Suppose there is a person in the position of Abel here and the person in the position of Cain may beat this person. This person never resists and you will gain friends around you. The people, while watching you being beaten, will be angry at that person beating you; those who hear the rumor that you were beaten, will be angry at Cain. While you will be silent, without appealing to other people for sympathy, the other person will brag that he beat you. You will be in a helpless position while he will be boastful of the fact that he beat you. Then, if he would go out and beat you the second time, the watchers, the bystanders, and those who have heard the rumors will be really serious. Those in the position of Cain will say, "I won't leave you alone. If you do that again I won't let you, I'll beat you." So, the third time, when he beats you, he will have so many enemies around him trying to fight him, beating him down. When you are beaten, you gain more friends, more helpers around you to fight against the evil force. After we have gone through persecutions and hardships and being beaten three times, then God will be there fighting for us. So, we have nothing to worry about.

The three years of 1972,1973 and 1974 are the most critical years for us and people around us will be negative towards us and there will be no helping hands for us. Even in the last year when I made my third world tour, you know very well that the State Department of the U. S. tried to stop me from coming to this country. This time, too, something difficult happened in Korea before I left my country. But if we go through those stages without resisting, in silence, there will come the time when the people of the whole world will be on our side to fight against the evil force. You must be resolved to help this country -- make this country indebted to you. You must know the fact that your work here will influence the whole world. I advise you to write diaries while you are here and those diaries will be of great, untold value in future days. It's going to be something like Acts in the Bible-what is going to take place here, around us, will be the record of the Apostles. One of the diaries may read, "Today I visited this person and I was faced with a negative attitude from him and it made me weep deep in my heart. But I remembered that I am here to fight the battle on the side of God, to be strengthened to fight against the whole world under Satanic power and I persevered under great patience. I have done this and that for the person and in my prayer I could not but console the heart of the Heavenly Father. I am resolved to fight on in such a way." Your records will bring world attention in future days. You can go on and write that the founding ideology of this country was Christianity and this has been a God-loving people, but now they are losing the love of God. The first settlers of this country were our forefathers, having come from the European nations. We must fight against the evil force in this country in order to stop this country from being ruined. We must do that at all costs. In that case, even though you are not too courageous to fight in the battlefield, later, 20 or 30 years from now, your diary will be a witness to you and will influence the whole population of the U. S. more so than you would have thought. So, don't worry too much about your not having done showy deeds. In that case you are going to play the role of the seeds planted in the hearts of the people of the U. S. Have you ever thought of that? Now, let's go back to the topic.

In going to the original position before the Human Fall, we need to examine this. God is there with Adam and Eve and their children making the foundation of four positions. But those multiplied children of Adam and Eve -- the first human ancestors-are divided into two sides: one on the side of Cain and the other on the side of Abel. By Adam and Eve, mankind multiplied Cain and Abel first on the family level, then on the tribal level, then on the national level. Then all the people of the world are destined to go back to the original position, but in what way? When anything falls, it falls straight down. When you want to reach a certain place, you want to go straight ahead, not making detours. Most people cannot go back to the original position from the situation they are in, but they must join the central point. In going up, they cannot go right up from the point where they are situated. They have to do something else. They have to look for the central point, to join the mainstream, and from then on, go upward. People on every level must join the central point, the mainstream, to go upward and reach their original position. The crossing point of any level must be on the vertical line -- the same line. At that point you will find the True Parents because the Fall was caused by the first human ancestors, and being children, you will meet them. The children were cut off from their True Parents. So, in the core of restoration, always the central figure and his family were most important. Noah's family, Abraham's, Jacob's families, all were important. God would want to restore a nation of His choice but in that too He wants to have the core family around the person of the central figure. So, always the core family is the problem.

So, how did mankind first fall? That is going to be the Principle of the course of restoration. First of all, you belong to God; second, you belong to the True Parents. Then you belong to your spouse. Without the Human Fall, there is God, then your spouse, and thirdly you belong to yourself. Then, you belong to your children. You, yourself, are for those four beings. But because of the Fall you are apt to want to belong to yourself and you want to do things as you please without recognizing the fact that you belong to those four. In saying that you belong to those four, you mean that you are in the objective position to those four. But while there is God as the subject, you still want to play the role of subject. So, you want to place yourself in the position of perfect minus. If you are in the position of perfect minus, you can have the person in perfect subjectivity. So, we can define that where there is perfect minus, perfect subject is sure to come. It is because God is at the core of the whole universe.

Let us think back; if Eve thought of herself as belonging to God and to her future husband, would she have been tempted by the Archangel? If Adam in turn had believed in his being for God and Eve's being for him, he could not have fallen. But they fell because they were not aware of that. So, God was going to develop His providence of restoration centered on Cain and Abel. I have said that if those two became united into one, no more problem would exist. The person in the position of Cain should have thought that he was there for the sake of God. He, in the position of the elder brother to Abel, should have thought that he was for his younger brother. Because centered on Adam and Eve, Adam was created for Eve, who was created next, so Cain was in the position to be for his younger brother, to belong to him. Let us put Adam and Eve, respectively, one in the position of first-born, and the other in the position of second-born. Cain and Abel's relationship is something like that between Adam and Eve. In Adam's family, Eve caused the Fall of Adam. Being the second-born, she caused the Fall of Adam, the first-born. But in the course of restoration, Abel (in the position of first born) must be able to restore Cain. But the way they do things must be different. In the first family, Eve caused the Fall of Adam by force, by tempting him -- by forcing him to do the same as she did; but, in the second case, Abel cannot do that by forcing his elder brother, but in such a way as to impress him, to move his heart. In other words, Cain must be obedient to Abel and Abel should have restored Cain in such a way to move his heart. Then Cain could have obeyed Abel to be restored. If Abel could move the heart of Cain and reversely speaking, if Cain utterly obeyed Abel, everything could have been solved right there.

Likewise, in restoring ourselves, we have to obey the central figure, while the central figure is going to move our hearts to obey him. But you must know that Cain must keep the position here and in joining those who are in the position of Cain, must move towards Abel. So Abel is trying to move our hearts, enlighten our hearts to the truth, but we in the position of Cain must be obedient and willing to join him. You cannot dream of dragging Abel to your side, but you are destined to go to him and join him. On every level the people have to go through the same course to join the central figure. The people on each level must do the same. Only the scope is being broadened, but the course you have to go through on each level is the same. So in the Latter Days, when the Messiah comes as the central point on the worldwide level, the people of the world must minister to him, come close to him and join him. He cannot do that on his part. Unless they do that, the people of the world must go through a lot of difficulty on the worldwide level.

When the central figure sets up the family as the core, the people on the next level must inherit the family level foundation and broaden its scope to their own level. If they don't inherit the family level, they must restore that by themselves and then widen its scope to their own level. So, the efforts will be doubled or tripled or more, and it will make it more difficult for them to do that. So, to inherit the family level already laid by him is most important. Unless you do that, it means that you discard the heavenly tradition. This is why the chosen nation of the Israelites puts great emphasis on their tradition. On the next level, the scope will be broadened, with the family-level tradition there and the previous level added.

In Jesus' days, centered on him, the Jewish people and chosen nation of Israel should have done that, but since they failed on the spiritual level, they should have connected their spiritual tradition to the Christian world. But that again having been a failure, they have to connect all those things by themselves. So, just as Jesus, as the central figure, was in persecution and difficulty, his followers have to pay a certain amount. Do you really realize how important heavenly tradition is? What Jacob was able to set up as his tradition in his family should have been inherited by his tribe and his nation. What Jacob earned there was a victory -- his name denoted victory. So, the Israelites must have set up a tradition as victors on God's side. They should have followed Moses completely. And they could have connected their victory on the family level to that of the tribal level. In Jesus' day he should have set up that tradition on the national level and gone beyond the national to the worldwide level. Jacob was a victor and his descendants multiplied, and then Moses appeared. At this stage the people should have cherished the tradition set up by Jacob. Centered on Moses, the people should have inherited the tradition which was set up by Jacob. With the inherited tradition around Moses they should have followed it. At this point they should have inherited Jacob's tradition and when all the people follow the inherited tradition from Jacob, they should become one with the tradition. All that would then become the new tradition. Only in that case could Moses have carried out his responsibility, setting up a new tradition and broadening it, with Moses himself in the core and all people around him. That would be inherited by the people of the next stage. The tradition is like that core, like Abel in relationship to the people who would be in the position of Cain. So, they had to obey the inherited tradition.

The core tradition inherited from Jacob is in the position of Abel while the rest is in the position of Cain. In other words the core tradition is in the position of Jacob as Abel to Moses as Cain. And only those put together in oneness will be able to set up another tradition bigger in scope. The next level of thing must obey or follow the tradition in the core -- with the former in the position of Cain, and their scope will be broadened to the next level and to the next, up to the time of John the Baptist. The same thing applies to any personage of historical providential importance. Centered on John the Baptist we can say the same thing. He should have inherited Jacob's tradition and should have added to that the tradition which Moses had set. With these two as entirely one, and with Jacob as the core, he should have set up a broader tradition, with his added. If John the Baptist had done that he would be in the position of those three put together. He inherited Jacob's, Moses' and those two put together as the core, and set up his own providential tradition with Jesus. Then he must transfer as inheritance -- or bless -- the personage or people of the next level, like Abraham blessed Isaac.

In the Old Testament we read that the personage of historical importance would transfer his blessing to the next personage. Jesus, as the fruit of all this should have inherited the tradition that John the Baptist had laid up to that time. Baptism was the ceremony through which Jesus could inherit the heavenly tradition. Through baptism John the Baptist could transfer everything to Jesus.

Jesus had inherited what was laid by John the Baptist, he would inherit Jacob's, Moses' and John the Baptist's tradition. If Jesus had inherited all those things, even if the chosen nation of Israel had failed for not ministering to Jesus, he already had the heritage. So, he could not have failed even though he lost the whole nation of the Israelites. So, from then on he could multiply his tradition through Christendom, after his death. If Jesus had not inherited what was laid by the forerunner, his mission would have been nullified to naught. But since he had inherited those things, even though he had lost the chosen people, he was able to carry out his mission on the spiritual level, to increase and multiply people in the Christian world.

When the Lord of the Second Advent comes, he must inherit those things from Jesus on the spiritual level in order to start his mission. First, on the spiritual level, and then, later on the physical level too. The heritage must be handed over to him twice. This time the Second Lord must be able to make his heritage a success both on the spiritual and physical levels with all the people of the world around him. Since this person has made the foundation both on spiritual and physical levels, if you stick to him and unite with him into perfect oneness, you can also be a victor. If the Christians of the present world can believe in him and be united with him on the physical level while on earth, both levels of things will be realized. But in the early stage of our movement, the Christian world went against him. So he has to reorganize a group of people who aren't Christians -- but including some Christians who are willing to join us -- and then in the course of 20 years from 1960 to 1980, he will fulfill that.

In order for him to be able to do that mission he must at all costs bring us up to the point where our balance of power will correspond to that of the Christian world. We must strengthen ourselves as soon as possible, to correspond to their power. Since our growth is slow because of the negative power working against us, if our growth is harmed or slowed down, God will make the Christian world corrupt all the sooner, all the more. So, we will have the balance of power to win over them or absorb them. From the year 1960 after the second seven-year course, that means by the year 1974, the balance of power will be created between our group and the Christian world. All over the world the Christian world is faced with corruption and people can realize that fact. If we can lay the national foundation during the course of that second seven years, we will be able to go into the worldwide level.

The Christian world will be absorbed by us during the next 7-year course. In Jacob's days, Jacob could set up the tradition on the tribal level. Moses inherited that tradition and with his people obeying it, he set up his own tradition, broad in scope, which became the national tradition. If Jesus had really become one with John the Baptist, he could have laid the foundation of tradition for the worldwide level. If the people could have followed the tradition laid by Jesus, the ideal world would have been realized. The first true Israelites having been a failure, the second Israelites, which means the Christian population, will have to follow Jesus. But they too have failed.

At the time of the Second Advent we must be able to carry out the mission left unaccomplished by Jesus. So, we have to realize God's ideal both on the spiritual and physical level, by following Master, who has inherited what Jesus left to him. So, you must be well aware of the tradition we have -- tradition coming from the very beginning of human history -- in the providential history under God. If we consider again the Human Fall, those on the worldwide level must come closer to him, joining into oneness, and go back upward. And the people on the national, tribal, family and individual levels must do the same. They must come closer to the central point to join him to go back to the original position. Why is it so? It is as if they had no roads opened to them, so they have to join the mainstream to go back the reverse way on the vertical line. We must join the mainstream to go up to the original position. (Pointing to the blackboard) In this chart the people of the world are placed here, and by coming together we can join the mainstream, and by means of this we can go back to the original position -- by winning all those levels. And if we come back to the original position as the core, we reversely, centered on ourselves, have to erect the tradition on the family level, national level and still next level. Then you can freely go back and forth within those boundaries.

What has been done on the vertical level must be indemnified or developed on the horizontal level. These must come together to establish one tradition, one culture, one people, one world. With this core any and every type and level of thing must be joined to become one. From then on we will start to have a new tradition, a new world. If we are at all going to make the world into one, all the people of the world must join and be united into one to set up the new tradition. Then, you can leave one tradition, one world, one culture to the future generations. It must be done with your family as the center. You must be able to set up the tradition of your family -- especially the blessed couples -- the tradition centered in your True Parents.

What was my subject yesterday? Blood lineage. I told you yesterday about how to become a wholesome offering. Today, I talked about how to set up the heavenly tradition. In doing that you have to join the central person, go back to the original position and from then on set up the core tradition to have its own culture, own tradition, in the one world. In other words, the whole world, the families of the whole world must be connected with his as the core. With the whole world in such chaos, confusion and turmoil, as I said before, God is working behind the human scene to put all those things in order centered on a certain figure of His choice. Tomorrow I am going to talk about how to purify blood lineage. The blessed couples must realize that you are the resurrection and incarnation of Jacob's tradition, the incarnation of Jesus' tradition and of Moses' tradition and the realization of True Parent's family tradition.

We are going to set up those traditions and leave them to your descendants. You are going to connect all that he set up to different people of the world, so they can join and become one with us.

So, the Unified Family members must always be watchful over what Master does and says and where he is. Only with keen observation and attentive ears can you carry out your mission. God would have me and you be able to carry out what is left unaccomplished by Jacob, Moses and Jesus and all past saints. When you join the effort with me, you can do everything in utter obedience to me, because what I am doing is not done at random but what I am doing is under God's command. You will be safe in obeying me to carry out your mission. With these things in mind, you must think of all the difficulties and hardships as a challenge. You must win over all those things and by going though them you will set up the new tradition, new culture and new world. I hope and desire you to do that, and to be brave and courageous when you accomplish your mission.